by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) was named as the winner of the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday. Under arrest since Oct 26, 2016 over his alleged links to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 9, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement on June 8 that the agency is deeply concerned by continued reports about the alleged push-backs and refoulement at the land border between Greece and Turkey. “Such allegations of informal...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 25, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) placed Turkey on a monitoring watchlist for its bleak record of human rights violations and pressure on dissenting voices in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, on Tuesday. Strasbourg-based PACE decided...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 19, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey’s purge of its military since a botched coup in July has cut its armed forces by a third according to the Council of Europe, Reuters reported adding that NATO raised concerns that Turkey’s response to the failed coup has worryingly thinned its...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 31, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Daniel Holtgen, director of communications at the Council of Europe (CoE) and spokesperson of Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland, has dismissed plans by Turkey to introduce the death penalty, saying that such a move would be against membership in the council....
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Hundreds gather in Strasbourg to demand justice for victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown