TurkStat: Newspaper, magazine circulation falls in Turkey in 2017
Turkey's statistics authority TurkStat announced on Thursday that the annual circulation of newspapers and magazines in the country last year fell 2,6 percent year-on-year,...
CCBE, EFJ and EAJ urge Turkey to release all judges, prosecutors, lawyers and journalists
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), and the European Association of Judges (EAJ) have...
‘Merciless, unjust and unfair,’ author Pamuk says of conviction of Turkish journalists
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, has criticized the aggravated life sentences handed down to six journalists including...
Turkish cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses
Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...
ECtHR rejects CHP’s application against April 16 Presidential referendum in Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declared on Thursday that Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) complaint about April 2017 referendum...
Press groups condemn detention of 4 journalists in Turkey, call for their release
Press freedom and human rights organizations have condemned the detention of four journalists in Turkey, calling it a crackdown on independent media and demanding...
Accounts of Erdoğanist Sabah daily seized in Germany
The accounts of pro-Erdoğan Sabah daily newspaper's edition in Germany were confiscated by the German Ministry of Finance because of some irregularities were detected...
Turkish journalist Coşkun faces 3 years in prison over report
An İstanbul prosecutor presented his final opinion to a court on Tuesday in a case against journalist Canan Coşkun, demanding up to three years’...
Turkish police briefly detain journalist who covered man’s suicide
A journalist who covered the story of a 45-year-old father’s suicide in Kocaeli due to his inability to buy a pair of trousers for...
Lawyers for Turkish journalists Alpay, Altan say Constitutional Court rulings are binding on all
Lawyers representing imprisoned Turkish journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay issued a public statement over the weekend regarding the continued detention of their clients...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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