by TurkeyPurge | Jun 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
State-run broadcaster TRT has refused to air main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) election advert which promises lift the post-coup State of Emergency. “TRT’s inspection unit did not approve our advert. They did not air the advert that we had paid for. It...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel who was released from prison after a year on Friday has said neither his jailing nor the release is accordance with the rule of law. Under arrest since Feb 2017 as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 1, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has been downgraded two places and ranked 101st among 113 countries in a justice index by a US advocacy group. The World Justice Project (WJP) released its biyearly Rule of Law Index along with a 191-page report based on 110,000 households and 3,000 experts in...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 20, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey has dropped by eight places from last year in the WJP Rule of Law Index 2016, released today by the World Justice Project (WJP). Ranked in 80th place out of 102 countries in 2015, Turkey slipped to number 99 out of 113 nations in the 2016 report. It came in...