ECtHR to take up journalist Alpay’s case with priority
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine an application filed by jailed journalist Şahin Alpay’s lawyers for the release of...
Court dishes out penalties for journalists who show solidarity with Özgür Gündem daily
An İstanbul court has dished out penalties for the prominent Turkish journalists who showed solidarity with the now-closed pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily on Tuesday.
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Artist given 2 years’ jail time for painting destruction in Kurdish town of Nusaybin
Zehra Doğan, a Turkish painter and reporter for the now-closed Dicle news agency, has been given a prison sentence of two years, nine months,...
Die Welt reporter says he was jailed due to his reports not social media...
Deniz Yücel, a Turkish-German journalist for the German Die Welt daily, has told a group of opposition deputies who visited him in prison that...
Turkey gov’t systematically jails women in persecution of critics
As part of escalating crackdown on dissent and criticism which landed almost 50,000 people in jail in the last six months alone, Turkish government...
Yeni Asya journalist arrested over terror charges
Naciye Nur Ener, a journalist from the critical Yeni Asya daily, has been arrested on charges of being a member of a terror organization,...
German justice minister calls Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks ‘absurd’
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has described Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks ‘absurd’ who accused Germany of employing practices similar to those...
Owner of closed Kurdish daily and 24 people detained in Diyarbakır
A total of 25 people, including Ramazan Ölçen, owner of the pro-Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, have been detained by Turkish police in simultaneous raids...
US Human Rights Report: Tens of thousands jailed in Turkey with little clarity on...
The 2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices — the Human Rights Reports — released by the US State Department on Friday said that...
Erdoğanist hitman threatens journalist Ataklı: You will be finished within 5 minutes
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Cem Küçük, a controversial columnist with the pro-government Star daily who is known for his social media attacks on government critics, also as a...
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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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