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Turkey’s state of emergency ended but the crackdown on human rights continues. Turkey’s two-year-long state of emergency may have ended in July 2018, but alarmingly, the ever-deepening roll back of human rights that it brought about has not. The state
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The June 2018 election campaign took place under a state of emergency imposed after the July 2016 attempted military coup and in a climate of media censorship and repression of perceived government enemies and critics that persisted throughout the year,
Commenting on Turkish human rights advocate Osman Kavala being held in solitary confinement without trial for a year, EP Subcommittee on Human Rights Chair Pier Antonio Panzeri stated: “Today is a sad day. Mr Osman Kavala, a prominent and respected
Read More Human Rights Chair Deplores Turkish Arrest and Detention of Osman Kavala
More than two years after being arbitrarily dismissed, almost 130,000 Turkish public sector workers are still awaiting justice and facing an uncertain future, Amnesty International said in a report published today. Purged beyond return? No remedy for Turkey’s dismissed public
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Since 15th of July; 2,099 schools and dormitories were shut down, the number of detained people is 122.000, the number of arrested people is 65.600. They are officers, reporters, lawyers, judges, teachers, academicians, even football players. They are arrested, tortured, jailed for very simple reasons.
A US pastor has arrived home after more than two years detention in Turkey, in a case that has strained relations between the two countries. “This is the day our family has been praying for, I am delighted to be
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a briefing on Turkey’s post-election human rights situation and strategies for accountability on 26 September 2018. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agree the elections were mostly free but
Read More Turkey: Post-Election Human Rights and Strategies for Accountability
We are deeply alarmed at the recently enacted anti-terror law, which retains numerous emergency restrictions and is likely to continue their adverse effect on human rights and fundamental freedoms Turkey has recently lifted its state of emergency, but with exceptions. For
U.S. pastor Andrew C. Brunson’s case is just one example of the ongoing human rights tragedy in Turkey. Pastor Brunson has spent the last 23 years of his life living in Turkey peacefully with his wife, where they have brought
The country experienced significant political challenges during the year. The continuing state of emergency–imposed following the July 2016 coup attempt, renewed once in 2016 and an additional four times during the year–had far-reaching effects on the country’s society and institutions,
Read More New Report on Human Rights in Turkey Released by US State Department
