CoE asks Turkey to stop stigmatization of LGBTI people
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has called on Turkey in a letter to two ministers to stop the stigmatization of...
Council of Europe anti-torture body reports beatings, electric shocks and prolonged isolation in Turkish...
The Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee has documented allegations of beatings and electric shocks and raised concerns about prolonged solitary confinement and inadequate healthcare...
Turkey arrests journalist for reporting on alleged judicial corruption
A Turkish court has ruled to arrest Furkan Karabay, an editor for the Gerçek Gündem news website who was detained on Thursday for reporting...
Turkey blocks exiled journalist Dündar’s YouTube channel over protest call
An İstanbul court has ordered a block on the YouTube channel of journalist living in exile Can Dündar, citing “national security and public order”...
Turkey’s RTÜK sanctions TV stations due to content over detained Istanbul mayor
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, has imposed maximum fines on several media outlets for their coverage of the detention...
Death toll rises to 17 as migrant boat sinks off Turkey’s Bodrum resort
Sixteen migrants and a people smuggler died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the coastguard...
Int’l rights groups call on EU to prioritize media freedom, human rights in relations...
International media freedom and human rights organizations have called on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and...
Social media users call on Turkish authorities to release jailed mother of child suffering...
Thousands of social media users in Turkey have called on authorities to release Gülten Sayın, the mother of Yusuf Kerim Sayın (6), who is...
Turkey’s peace process has not eliminated risk of torture for Kurdish asylum seeker, German...
The ongoing peace process aimed at ending Turkey’s decades-long conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) did not eliminate the risk of torture...
Kurdish historical figure’s family files complaint against far-right party leader for insult
The family of Sheikh Said, who led a Kurdish nationalist rebellion against the new Republic of Turkey in 1925 and was executed along 46...
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