COMMENTARY — The US State Department is still confused about Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
By Abdullah Bozkurt The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Antonín Mokrý, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 45 countries and ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
The Turkish government has not always observed the requirements of law that prohibit arbitrary arrest and detention and provide for the right of any person to challenge ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey despite the presence of closed-circuit cameras installed by the Turkish government in 2012, and police abused ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
The US State Department has stated that the continuing state of emergency, imposed following a July 2016 coup attempt, had far-reaching effects on the country’s ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher sentenced to one year, three months in prison for allegedly “praising terrorism and a terrorist organisation” in 2016, began serving ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Turkish-Armenian parliamentarian Garo Paylan from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that he has submitted a legislative proposal for the recognition of the Armenian ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Journalist Erk Acarer has claimed that Ümit Horzum, a former civil servant who was found 133 days after he went missing in Ankara, was tortured ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
US Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on Thursday released a joint statement on their decision to pursue targeted sanctions ... Read More »
SCF 20 Apr 2018
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci in a televised interview with T7 admitted for the first time that the arrest and deportation of six Turkish men suspected ... Read More »