Almost 60,000 cases filed against Turkish Prime Ministry over state of emergency decrees
A total of 57,679 cases were filed against state of emergency decree-laws in 2017, the Prime Ministry Office’s activity report for the year has...
US calls on Turkey to cease human rights abuses, restore democracy
A member of the Delegation of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council in an address during the organization’s 37th session in...
When the last barricade falls: Remembering unlawful takeover of Turkey’s largest daily
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On March 4, 2016, exactly two years ago today, hundreds of riot police fired rubber bullets and gassed loyal readers of Turkey’s best-selling daily...
US Special Counsel Mueller investigating Kushner’s ties with Erdoğan’s family
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of and special advisor to US President Donald Trump, is being investigated over his foreign links to a number of...
COMMENTARY — UAE sweep exposes Turkish intelligence links to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has aided, funded and armed jihadist groups in Syria for years, is troubled...
Turkish gov’t jails teacher Semra Çakır and her 2-year-old daughter to blackmail husband
The latest victim of the Turkish government's tactic of guilt by association with the purpose of blackmail is Semra Çakır, a 41-year-old teacher, and...
HDP’s Sarıyıldız: Silence of UN in face of Turkish gov’t’s crime against humanity not...
Faisal Sarıyıldız, an exiled deputy from Turkey's pr0-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), stated in a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 37th...
HDP calls Turkish prisons ‘torture centers,’ urges EP, EU and UN to take action
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday called on the United Nations, the European Parliament and the European Commission to "urgently" take action...
Turkey’s emergency rule commission approves 100 job reinstatements out of 6,400
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission, which was established by a decree-law issued on Jan. 23, 2017, announced that it has finalized a...
İHD: 1,154 prisoners sick, 402 of them in serious condition, across Turkey
The Prisons Commission of Turkey's Human Rights Association (İHD) announced on Friday that there are 1,154 ill prisoners in jails across Turkey, with 402...
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