Turkey – Human Rights

BY ELIF AKGÜL İstanbul – BIA News Desk “Just like the decision of our arrest, the decision of our release is political. We will continue [more >>>]

www.info-turk.be Turkey is further away from European Union membership today than it was seven years ago, Hannes Swoboda, leader of the Group of the Progressive [more >>>]

By YIGAL SCHLEIFER Eurasianet.org For those who follow Turkey closely, that Freedom House moved the country from “Partly Free” into the “Not Free” category in [more >>>]

Freedom House Washington May 5, 2014 Freedom House has noted complaints by the government of Turkey about Turkey being ranked “Not Free” in our report, [more >>>]

by A.Z. The Economist Is it going to be another summer of unrest? The question became more urgent on May 1st when Turkey’s prime minister, [more >>>]

By TIMUR KURAN* Project Syndicate DURHAM – In the run-up to Turkey’s municipal elections on March 30, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that the [more >>>]

News Comes After Turkish Government Blocked YouTube and Twitter By SAM SCHECHNER The Wall Street Journal Turkish telecom companies are intercepting traffic sent to public [more >>>]

GENEVA (28 March 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts expressed serious concern over the Government’s measures, taken in the context of forthcoming [more >>>]

“Just prior to key local elections, the total blocking of access to YouTube is a further worrying development regarding freedom of expression and is contrary [more >>>]

By Gul Tuysuz and Ivan Watson CNN The Turkish government banned YouTube on Thursday, less than a week after Ankara made a similar blackout of [more >>>]