2,000 visually impaired people among those dismissed in Turkey’s post-coup purge: Amnesty Int’l
At least 2,000 visually-impaired people are among those who were dismissed from their jobs at public institutions, according to Amnesty International. Beril Eski, a press coordinator at Amnesty International Turkey, told journalist Caglar Dilara on Tuesday that the...
Report: Gov’t violated right to life in jailed English teacher’s death
Turkish government has violated the right to life in jailed English teacher Halime Gulsu’s death, a recent report by human rights group concluded. Gülsu, an English teacher who was arrested on Feb. 20, 2018 for her alleged links to the Turkey’s Gülen group, died on...
Press groups urge Erdogan to denounce violent attacks on journalists
The International Press Institute along with other 18 press freedom and freedom of expression organizations – including PEN International and several PEN Centres – sent today a joint letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, calling for justice following the...
546 suspected Gulenists detained while escaping Turkey to Greece in past 3 years: report
The number of people who were detained while trying to escape from Turkey to Greece in the face of a government crackdown against the suspected followers of the Gulen movement has reached to 546. Anadolu news agency reported that 546 suspected Gulenists were detained...
Netherlands warns Turkey-bound travelers on terrorism laws, social media use
Dutch foreign ministry updated its travel advice for Turkey on Monday, warning its citizens against terrorism laws and controls on social media. "The Turkish government sees the Gülen religious movement as a terrorist organization. Persons and organizations associated...
After Azerbaijan, Turkey named second most anti-LGBT+ country in Europe
A ranking by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has put Turkey in the second lowest place in Europe in terms of LGBTI rights, the Diken news website reported on Tuesday. With a percentage score of 5.16, Turkey was ranked...
Report: 27,000 Turkish nationals sought asylum in Germany since 2016
At total of 27,092 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Germany in the past three years, according to Deutsche Welle (DW). DW reported Monday that Germany has received a total of 27,092 asylum applications from Turkish nationals since 2016, a year that Turkey survived a...
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, urging...
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...