Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on the Turkish government to investigate "serious abuses" allegedly committed by police and neighborhood night watchmen against more...
A
human rights group on Thursday urged Turkish Cypriot authorities in the
breakaway north of ethnically split Cyprus to release 175 Syrian migrants that
it says have...
Turkish authorities’ failure to ensure adequate water
supplies to Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria is compromising humanitarian
agencies’ ability to prepare and protect vulnerable communities during...
Greek security forces and unidentified armed men at
the Greece-Turkey land border have detained, assaulted, sexually assaulted,
robbed and stripped asylum seekers and migrants, then forced...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for emergency
humanitarian aid at the border and fair burden sharing among EU member states,
the Kathimerini daily reported.
“The EU has...
As Turkey will undergo
its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in
Geneva on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said...
Factions
of the Syrian National Army (SNA), a non-state armed group backed by Turkey in
northeast Syria, have summarily executed civilians and failed to account for
aid...
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...
An indictment accusing civic leader Osman Kavala and
15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an
attempt to overthrow the...
Two Turkish citizens were arrested on Monday by a court for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, a pro-government daily reported.
Forty-nine-year-old...
“‘Insulting the president’ should not be a crime, and students holding up a satirical banner obviously should never have faced prosecution,” said Benjamin Ward,...
