International rights groups have launched campaigns and called for the immediate release of doctors union chair Şebnem Korur Fincancı, who was arrested in Turkey...
Amnesty International has named businessman and rights defender Osman Kavala and six other jailed Gezi defendants “prisoners of conscience,” after a high-level delegation led...
Human rights watchdogs on Monday called on Turkish authorities to ensure that all charges against Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of Turkey’s oldest human rights group,...
Amnesty International on Friday called on member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) to institute infringement proceedings against Turkey for failing to implement a...
Turkey continued to apply broadly defined anti-terrorism laws to punish acts protected under international human rights law in 2020, disregarding fair trial guarantees and...
Amnesty International has criticized Turkey for the authorities’ use of punitive and coercive measures in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which have resulted...
Amnesty International
has called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will travel to Turkey this
week, to take action for the release of jailed businessman and...
More than 82 percent of the Turkish public thinks that
people’s rights and freedoms are being violated, according to a poll conducted
by MetroPoll at the...
Several international
organizations have expressed outrage over the Tuesday re-arrest of well-known
Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan, 69, one week after his release from
prison.
Altan’s...
Amnesty International has launched an urgent action
campaign to urge Turkey’s justice minister to help in dropping criminal charges
against Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) students...
Amnesty International reiterated its call for jailed
businessman Osman Kavala’s “immediate and unconditional” release as he marked
708 days behind bars in pre-trial detention.
A third hearing...
