Co-rapporteur Mikko urges PACE to place Turkey under monitoring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=8s&v=VDuY8p8qtj0&app=desktop Marianne Mikko, co-rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialog with Turkey, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), criticized Turkey for jailing journalists en masse,...

MEPs call on EU member states to take action at CoE meeting for release...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on EU member states to use all means at their disposal to ensure the release of...

Erdoğan unveils human rights action plan, leading to skepticism

At a time when Turkey is the subject of harsh criticism due to gross human rights violations in the country, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Turkey detains pro-Kurdish party officials, renowned rights activist

Turkish police on Friday detained dozens of pro-Kurdish party officials and a renowned human rights activist, as prosecutors increase the pressure on the country’s...

1.5 million euros awarded to plaintiffs from Turkey by rights court in 2020

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey to pay a total of 1,548,027 euros in awards to plaintiffs in 2020 after...

Mass detentions of Gülen movement followers since 2014 ‘politically motivated’: report

A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically...

Critics blacklisted and threatened by Turkish government supporters on Clubhouse

Many people who criticize the Turkish government on the new social media platform Clubhouse are being blacklisted and threatened by pro-government accounts, the Bold...

Turkish gov’t detains health union chair and members over alleged terror links

Turkish police in the early hours of Tuesday detained the co-chair and members of the Health and Social Service Employees Union (SES) over alleged...
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ECtHR poses questions to Turkish gov’t on processing of raw ByLock data

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has posed a series of questions to the Turkish government concerning the processing of raw data from...
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Questions linger over Turkey’s arrest of man behind ByLock

Turkish state media reported Wednesday that a Turkish-American holding the copyright to ByLock, an encrypted messaging app banned by Turkey, was arrested in June...

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