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EP rapporteur Piri: EU should be loud and clear on human rights in Turkey
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Turkey, said on Tuesday during her speech in European Parliament Plenary that "Osman Kavala, Ahmet Şık and Selehattin Demirtaş...
HRW: Prosecutions of alleged followers of Gülen movement lack of evidence, criminal activity
New York-based international human rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has highlighted worsening situation with regards to human rights, rule of law, freedom of...
EP president criticizes removal of HDP deputy Zana’s parliamentary status
Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has released a statement on Twitter criticizing the Friday removal of the parliamentary status of pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Turkey falls to ‘Not Free’ status in Freedom House’s ‘Freedom in the World 2018’...
Turkey’s freedom status has declined from 'Partly Free' to 'Not Free' in “Freedom in the World 2018: Democracy in Crisis,” the annual report released...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says he informed France’s Macron about ‘so-called’ journalists
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he informed French President Emmanuel Macron about “so-called” journalists in Turkish jails during a visit to Paris,...
EP’s Harms: I have serious doubts about ECtHR’s attitude over cases from Turkey
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, has said that she has serious doubts about the...
PPJ’s Gök: Erdoğan allies with ultra-nationalists to set up judiciary to persecute dissidents
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allied with ultra-nationalists to purge thousands of judges and prosecutors and set up new courts to target dissidents, wrote Uğur...
Turkish author Perihan Mağden: I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany
Renowned Turkish author Perihan Mağden has assessed the anti-democratic practices and increasing pressures in Turkey and described the current period in Turkey by comparing...
Under suffocating climate created by Turkish gov’t Ankara University Human Rights Center closed
Turkish law professor, human rights and free speech activist Kerem Altıparmak has declared that Human Rights Center at Faculty of Political Sciences (SBF) of...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
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