Call from Artists to Artists to Campaign for Peace
By BEYZA KURAL bianet.org Artists seeking answer to question “What should be done for the sake of peace, humanity, environment, future, and environment?” upon Independent [more >>>]
Turkey – Human Rights
Post-Suruç Turkey
By CAGLA AYKAC opendemocracy.net It has been not much more than a couple of weeks since 31 young activists were killed in a suicide bombing [more >>>]
Parliamentary elections in Turkey: statement by the pre-electoral delegation
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) A six-member(*) cross-party delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was in Ankara [more >>>]
Hopes for Democracy, EU Integration Fade in Erdogan’s Turkey
By FRIDA GHITIS* World Politics Review It wasn’t very long ago that Turkey was held up as an example of a country in the midst [more >>>]
Is life getting worse for women in Erdogan’s Turkey?
THE INQUIRY BBC World Service The murder of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan, who was stabbed while reportedly resisting a rape attempt, has unleashed a storm of [more >>>]
Turkey Ranks #3 in Violations Against Musicians’ Rights
BIA News Desk Freemuse monitored and documented violations of freedom of expression for musicians on www.freemuse.org in 2014. Musicians around the world are facing imprisonment, [more >>>]
Turkey’s Blasphemy Barometer
By PIOTR ZALEWSKI Foreign Affairs Sacrificing Free Speech in Istanbul In mid-January, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu marched alongside other world leaders in Paris to [more >>>]
Corruption-Covering Reporters in Turkey Fear Layoff: Research
By ELIF AKGÜL BIA News Desk Transparency International (TI) and Center For Social Research and Education (TAREM) released their preliminary results of a research on [more >>>]
Turkey offers cash rewards for marrying early
By ZÜLFIKAR DOĞAN* (Contributor, Turkish Pulse) Al Monitor The latest promises of financial incentives by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Prime Minister [more >>>]
Turkey: PEN talks to writer Sevan Nişanyan
PEN International Sevan Nişanyan is facing imprisonment for ‘denigrating religious values’ Sevan Nişanyan is a writer, linguist, hotelier and public intellectual from Turkey’s Armenian minority, [more >>>]