by TurkeyPurge | Aug 16, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Aseem Trivedi, a free speech activist and cartoonist has drawn cartoons of 15 mothers and their newly born babies, who have been detained or arrested by the Turkish government on coup charges either when they are pregnant or shortly after giving birth. Triverdi...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 12, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme between the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has urged Turkey to release jailed human rights defenders in the country. The...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 5, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
WeltN24, the German media group that publishes Die Welt daily newspaper, has lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), over Turkey’s jailing of journalist Deniz Yücel. The veteran Die Welt reporter was first detained as part of an investigation...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 3, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and disappearances, which may have been enforced, in Ankara of at least four men, who have been missing since March 2017. “There are...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 31, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey is going through its darkest and gloomiest days in terms of rule of law, the right to a fair trial and even the most fundamental rights and liberties, which are major benchmarks for democracy. Intellectuals, journalists, critical politicians, businesspeople,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jul 30, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
‘FETÖ Syndrome’ has emerged as an ever-spreading paranoia that causes many people to leave Turkey while also preventing many others even from shopping at the grocery stores considered as tied to the Gülen movement, according to Turkish psychotherapist Çağatay Öztürk....
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