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...
Lawyer posts photos of former Kyrgyz official suspected of role in İnandı’s disappearance
A lawyer representing a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator in Kyrgyzstan who is allegedly being held against his will at the Turkish Embassy in Bishkek on Tuesday...
Turkish gov’t cancels financial aid of students protesting Erdoğan-appointed rector
Turkish authorities have canceled the student loans and scholarships of at least 100 university students because they participated in protests against the appointment of...
PACE refers to jailed pro-Kurdish party MPs as ‘political prisoners’
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), of which Turkey is a member, has passed a resolution referring the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...
Turkey’s far-right leader calls HDP employee killed in attack a ‘terrorist’
Leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bahçeli has said a young woman who was killed in an attack on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
German gov’t contacted Kyrgyzstan about missing educator: report
An official from the German Foreign Ministry has revealed that the federal government contacted Kyrgyz authorities earlier this month regarding the situation of a...
Top court rules no rights violation in case of police chief found dead in...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled there was no rights violation concerning the imprisonment of a former police intelligence chief who was found dead in...
Turkey exploits global fight against terrorism financing to target civil society: Amnesty
Turkey exploits measures prescribed by international watchdogs to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and countering the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass...
MEPs condemn attack on HDP, murder of party member
An attack on pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in İzmir and the killing of Deniz Poyraz, a party official in the building at...
ECtHR seeks Turkey’s defense in case of jurists jailed over Gülen links
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has requested a statement from Turkey regarding the cases of 256 people including judges and prosecutors who...
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