96 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have detained of a total of 96 suspects in a week, part of a relentless witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, according to...
Chinese pressure upends Uyghur refuge in Turkey
After 20 years in a Chinese prison, Abdullah Abdulrahman joined 50,000 other Uyghurs and fled to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had once...
Turkey among top 3 countries with steepest decline in liberal democracy index: report
Turkey is among the countries that “autocratized” the most, together with Poland and Hungary, according to the “Democracy Report 2021,” which was published by...
13 participants in Women’s Day’s march in İstanbul detained on Erdoğan insult charges
Turkish police have detained 13 women including a minor who took part in a march to mark International Women’s Day on March 8 in...
Amnesty urges Council of Europe to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) to institute infringement proceedings against Turkey for failing to implement the...
11-month-old baby forced to accompany mother sentenced to 9 years in prison
Yasemin Melizci, 29, who was arrested on terrorism charges for alleged links to the Gülen movement and was accompanied by her 9-month-old daughter in...
CoE human rights commissioner calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism...
In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public today, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...
CoE called on to investigate gross rights violations suffered by women due to Ankara’s...
A rights group on International Women’s Day called for an investigation into rights violations suffered by women due to a crackdown by the Turkish...
Turkey’s state-run news agency harasses Turkish rights activist in the US over Times Square...
Three employees of Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) harassed the president of US-based advocacy organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on Sunday after...
5 int’l rights groups call on CoE to urge Turkey to release Demirtaş
Five human rights groups have called on the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers to urge Turkey to release Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş...
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Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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