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EU Parliament suggests formal suspension of membership talks with Turkey

The European Parliament has voted to propose the formal suspension of accession talks with Turkey, with members of the European Parliament saying the relations...

US senators introduce legislation calling for sanctions on Turkish officials violating human rights

Three US senators on Thursday announced the introduction of the “Turkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 2021,” legislation condemning human rights abuses carried out by...

Remains of 261 alleged PKK members buried next to sewage line, not returned to families, opposition MP says

The remains of 261 alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that were removed from Garzan Cemetery in Bitlis province in December...

Turkey continued to punish dissent in 2020: Amnesty annual report

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...

South African rights advocates vow to defend cause of Turkey’s expelled MP

Türkmen Terzi  Prominent human rights advocates from South Africa promised at an online event to support Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish MP who was expelled...

1.5 million euros awarded to plaintiffs from Turkey by rights court in 2020

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey to pay a total of 1,548,027 euros in awards to plaintiffs in 2020 after...

HRW says time to focus on human rights in EU’s Turkey agenda

Philippe Dam, advocacy director of the Human Rights Watch for Europe and Central Asia division, has called on the EU to raise its voice...

Syrian refugee family in SE Turkey attacked in their home in an apparent hate crime

A Syrian refugee family living in Turkey’s southeastern Gaziantep province was attacked in their home on March 28 in an apparent hate crime, the...

EU eyes cooperation with Turkey if ‘de-escalation sustained’

European Union leaders agreed at a video summit on Thursday that they are ready to boost cooperation with Turkey, if "current de-escalation is sustained"...

Human rights not protected in Turkey due to gov’t control over judiciary: report

A report authored by Italian judge Luca Perilli and recently published by the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led symbolic international tribunal to review and...

183 members of Congress call on US government to address human rights abuses in Turkey

A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States...

Rights advocate MP to challenge jail sentence at Constitutional Court

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has announced that he is taking a court ruling handing down a prison sentence to...

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