HDP Goes to ECtHR for Its Co-Chairs Demirtaş, Yüksekdağ
BIA News Desk bianet Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has applied to the European Court of the Human Rights (ECtHR) for its arrested Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş [more >>>]
Turkey – Human Rights
‘Turkey is the biggest jail for journalists in the world’
By MARC PERELMAN France 24 Can Dündar is the former editor in chief of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. After being charged with espionage and surviving an [more >>>]
Urgent measures are needed to restore freedom of expression in Turkey
Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights NILS MUIŽNIEKS Strasbourg, 15 February 2017 – “The space for democratic debate in Turkey has shrunk alarmingly following [more >>>]
Joint Declaration by pro-Kurdish Bodies in Favor of ‘No’ Votes in Referendum
BIA News Desk Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Free Women’s Movement (Tewgera Jinen Azad) have published a [more >>>]
Turks Face a Choice: Erdoğan or Democracy
by SARABRYNN HUDGINS* Freedom House Now that constitutional amendments on a stronger presidency have cleared the parliament, referendum voters must decide whether to endorse their [more >>>]
UN expert warns on Turkish government’s ‘draconian measures’ on freedoms of expression [Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré]
UN News Centre 18 November 2016 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of opinion and expression raised concerns over the [more >>>]
Turkey: Arrest of Parliamentarians Accelerates Descent into Dictatorship
Freedom House WASHINGTON – In response to the mass detention of leaders and Members of Parliament of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, Freedom [more >>>]
Turkey detains editor, top staff at opposition newspaper
By HUMEYRA PAMUK and DAREN BUTLER Reuters Turkish police detained the editor and senior staff of a leading opposition newspaper on Monday over its alleged [more >>>]
‘What about our human rights?’: Kurds feel force of Turkey’s crackdown
By CONSTANZE LETSCH The Guardian Ahmet stood on a roof in the district of Sur in Diyarbakır and watched as two bulldozers razed his family [more >>>]
Turkey arrests 27 more businessmen in coup investigation
turkishminute.com A total of 27 businessmen were arrested on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the [more >>>]