by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2019 | Int'l Reactions, Today in Crackdown
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2019 | Int'l Reactions
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...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 30, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Amnesty International’s (AI) local branch in UK’s Kirklees distict has called on Kosovar government to avoid extradition of Turkish teachers abducted on Thursday. “Turkey chair Taner Kilic’s unlawful arrest in Turkey has showed us the arbitrariness in Turkey’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 31, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) has called for the release of Amnesty International’s (AI) Turkey chair Taner Kilic, under arrest for more than 7 months now. In a written statement issued a day before Kilic’s court appearance on Jan 31, PACE’s...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court in Izmir has ruled for the continuation of the pre-trial detention of Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International’s Turkey section, the Evrensel daily reported. Kılıç, a lawyer, a founding member of AI Turkey and chairman of its board of...
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