51 people being held all together in a 12-people cell in prison, newly-released teacher says
A total of 51 people are being kept in a cell in Diyarbakir prison that is meant for only 12 people, Ayşe Çelik, a Kurdish teacher who was released from prison yesterday, has revealed. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the imprisonment of Kurdish...
82 asylum seekers pushed back from Greece to Turkey in past three weeks: report
Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews. Witnesses claim various groups of masked men in military uniform, as well as those in plain clothes...
DW: Turkish gov’t cancels press credentials of 682 journalists in 4 months
The Turkish government cancelled 682 press cards between November and March, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Thursday. According to the report there were 15,423 permanent press card holders and 5,709 yellow, or temporary, press card holders in November...
DW: Around 3,000 inmates are being kept in solitary confinement in Erdogan’s prisons
Thousands of prisoners are being held in solitary confinement in Turkey under conditions so harsh that some prisoners consider dying by suicide, Deutsche Welle reported Tuesday. There are no official figures on the number of prisoners in solitary confinement or how...
NBA terminates contract with Turkish PR company due to censorship on Enes Kanter
The National Basketball Association (NBA) terminated its contract with a Turkish PR company that controls its local Twitter account after the latter failed to mention Enes Kanter’s name among high-performers following a play-off game. ““Fans in Turkey can watch all...
US says religious freedoms in Turkey remained deeply troubling in 2018
In 2018, the state of religious freedom in Turkey remained deeply troubling, raising serious concerns that the country’s current trajectory will lead to the further deterioration of conditions in the year ahead, the US State Department said in its annual International...
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[VIDEO] Purge Museum visits Brussels with Turkey’s post-coup victims telling of their tragedies
Purge Museum, an initiative that collects and exhibits items belonging to individuals who survived Turkey’s massive crackdown on the Gülen movement, opened for a four-day run in Brussels on Tuesday evening, presenting a selection of articles and their heart-wrenching...
Turkish refugee children in Greece urge release of peers from jail back home
Turkish refugee children in Greece lend support to their jailed peers back home in a video recording, released to mark Apr 23 Children’s Day. Medya Bold online news outlet reported that a group of Turkish nationals in Greece posted the video to mark the day,...
UK Supreme Court rejects appeal by Ankara concerning the extradition of Gulenist businessman
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has rejected an appeal by Ankara concerning the extradition of Akın İpek, a Turkish businessman who is accused by the Erdogan regime of having links to the Gulen movement. According to the Hurriyet daily news, the Turkish...
HRW: Bar associations in Europe, US, Canada should advocate for lawyers in Turkey
Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in the aftermath of the country’s failed military coup in July 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The move is part of the Turkish authorities’ major assault on the...
Purge-victim Kurdish artist Zehra Dogan given Index on Censorship’s arts award
The London-based Index on Censorship, a campaigning publishing organization for freedom of expression, has given this year’s Freedom of Expression Arts Award to Kurdish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan, according to a statement on the organization’s website. Index...
No evidence of criminal activity in indictment against Kavala, 15 others: HRW
An indictment accusing civic leader Osman Kavala and 15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the government provides no credible evidence of criminal activity, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The defendants...
Report: Turkey asked Germany to arrest 925 people since 2016 coup
Turkish government has asked Germany to arrest 925 people as part of its post-coup manhunt since July 15, 2016, German daily Welt reported Friday. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has received 990 requests from Turkey, of which 925 aimed at arrest...
US, Germany and UK slam Kosovo for last year’s deportation of Turkish citizens
Extradition of six Turkish nationals by Kosovo authorities suspected of their alleged links to Fetullah Gulen’s movement, was in violation in violation with dozens of regulations and marked an “egregious breach of democratic values” that highlights the...
Amnesty volunteer Webb to jailed journalist Parıldak: Please try to stay strong. You are not alone
Felicity Webb, an Amnesty International activist from the UK, has written a letter of solidarity to journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, who is among the dozens of journalists arrested in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. In her letter Webb wrote...
Group of activists walking across Europe raises 40,000 euros for Turkish refugees in Greece
A group of activists from the UK raised 40,000 euros for needy Turkish nationals who have landed in Greece as refugees in the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup witch-hunt. Bold Medya online news outlet reported Tuesday that the group has collected...
Ever wondered about Turkey’s global abduction programme?
Ever wondered about Turkey’s global abduction programme and allegations of secret torture sites in the country? If yes, a team of nine media organizations from eight countries, coordinated by @correctiv_org, a non-profit investigative newsroom in Europe,...
WSJ: Turks fleeing Erdogan fuel new influx of refugees to Greece
Thousands of Turks flee Turkey due to a massive witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government against the Kurds and the Gülen Group in the wake of a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Around 14,000 people crossed the Evros frontier...