A group of European lawmakers, academics and activists expressed solidarity with human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attacked the LGBT community at a party meeting on Monday, saying his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would...
A report drafted by a main opposition party deputy detailing incidents of torture and maltreatment in Turkey since the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday and Wednesday after human rights activist and...
Eleven nongovernmental organizations have called on the relevant bodies of the European Union to examine the situation in Turkey under the recently adopted Global...
A total of 16 inmates have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in northern Turkey’s Karabük Prison as cases countrywide have increased dramatically, reaching 1,866,345 on...
The Council of the European Union on Monday adopted a regulation establishing a global human rights sanctions regime.
The new regime grants the EU a...
Human rights violations are continuing in Turkey despite the lifting of a state of emergency in July 2018, the German government has said, underlining...
The European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on
Turkey, Nacho Sánchez Amor, and the chair of the EP Delegation to the
EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, Sergey Lagodinsky, on...
Ömer
Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a member of parliament and one of Turkey’s most prominent
human rights defenders, has submitted legislation for the postponement of
prison sentences due to...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on
Wednesday he respected a court decision to acquit philanthropist Osman Kavala
and eight others over their role in the...
Turkey
has a total of 9,250 cases pending review by the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR), ranking second after Russia among the 47 countries subject...
