UN expresses grave concern over Myanmar, Thai deportation of Sökmen to Turkey
The United Nations expressed grave concern on Saturday over the deportation by Myanmar and Thailand of a Turkish national Muhammet Furkan Sökmen over alleged...
German Green Party co-chair calls on int’l community to prevent deportation of educator İnandı...
Cem Özdemir, the co-chairman of the German Green Party, on Wednesday called on the international community to prevent the deportation to Turkey of educator...
Wife of missing educator launches ‘justice watch’ in Bishkek
The wife of a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence began a “justice watch” in front of the Kyrgyz presidential...
PACE committee urges action against transnational repression, reveals Turkey’s tactics
Unanimously adopting a draft resolution on May 23 based on a report by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s...
Erdoğan regime’s banditry targeting Turkish teachers stirs debate in Pakistan
The abduction of Mesut Kaçmaz, the director of Pak-Turk School, and his family members in Pakistan and their illegal deportation to Turkey have led...
Turkey, Cambodia called on to implement UN body decision on expelled educator
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) has called on the governments of Turkey and Cambodia to implement a decision against the Kingdom...
Turkish court sentences teacher Duman, abducted by MİT from Malaysia, to 18 years in...
Alaettin Duman, a Turkish teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Kuala Lumpur in 2016...
Erdogan’s long arm reaches to West African nation of Senegal
Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to the West African nation of Senegal, specifically targeting members of the Gülen movement, using embassy...
Enforced disappearances must be investigated by an independent committee, lawmaker says
Enforced disappearances must be investigated by an independent committee, said Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a human rights defender and deputy from the Republican People's Party, ANKA...
PACE reveals Turkey’s tactics in its first resolution on transnational repression
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in its first resolution condemning all forms of transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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