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Erdoğan calls Demirtaş a ‘terrorist,’ denies existence of a Kurdish problem in Turkey: report
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has referred to jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016 on politically motivated...
Serious backsliding in democracy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms continues in Turkey: EU
Serious backsliding in the respect for democratic standards, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms continued in the absence of an effective checks and...
Turkish gov’t not serious about UN’s periodic human rights review process: Human Rights Watch
The Turkish government’s refusal to acknowledge and address key issues at the core of the human rights crisis the country is currently facing shows...
Turkish government fears criticism more than pandemic: Amnesty International
Amnesty International said, in a report released Thursday, the fact that prisoners of conscience have been left to languish in appalling conditions despite a...
Rights watchdogs to EU: Put respect for human rights at center of relations with...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in a joint letter on Tuesday to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel...
Turkey still the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, says Pen International
Turkey is still the world’s number-one jailer of journalists, said Pen International in its 2019 case list, which monitored 212 cases of repression of writers...
Amnesty, 26 NGOs call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners amid coronavirus crisis
Amnesty International and 26 other rights groups and civil society organizations from Turkey and around the world on Monday released a joint statement calling...
HRW urges UN to address human rights violations in Turkey
As Turkey will undergo its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
Turkish civil society figures go on trial over 2013 Gezi Park protests
Sixteen leading Turkish civil society leaders appeared in court on Monday, accused of seeking to overthrow the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during the...
15-year-old Gezi protest victim commemorated in İstanbul
Berkin Elvan, who was hit by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and died in 2014 after spending 269...
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