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Turkish rappers release 2 songs criticizing social injustice, human rights abuses

Turkish rappers on Friday released two new songs criticizing the Turkish government and urging the public, especially young people, to raise their voices against political and...

Bar association reports ill treatment of inmates by guards in Turkey’s east

The Diyarbakır Bar Association has announced that scores of inmates in a high security prison in eastern Elazığ province were physically battered by guards, the Artı Gerçek...

Jailed Turkish teacher not taken to hospital after cardiac problem

Teacher İsmet Özçelik, who was abducted from Malaysia by the Turkish intelligence agency and rendered to Turkey, was not taken to a hospital despite reportedly having suffered...

CoE calls on Turkey to repair damage to Turkish judiciary inflicted by state of emergency

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has called on Turkish authorities to take immediate action to restore confidence in the judiciary, which she...

Turkish human rights lawyer to receive Thomas Dehler Medal for work on media freedom

Lawyer Veysel Ok, who has defended dozens of journalists in Turkey who were prosecuted for their work, is going to receive the Thomas Dehler Medal 2019,...

Diyarbakır Bar Association investigated for insult to Turkishness

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the previous administration of the Diyarbakır Bar Association over Article 301 of the...

AI Germany says Turkey, Russia violating human rights declaration: report

Amnesty International (AI) Germany’s secretary-general criticized Turkey and Russia in particular for violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the anniversary of the...

EP’s Piri: Without urgent reforms, no improvement in EU-Turkey relations

Completing a fact-finding mission to Turkey, Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, called on the Turkish government to make real reforms in order...

Turkey’s top court receives over 190,000 individual applications in last 6 years

Turkey’s Constitutional Court received 191,371 individual applications between 2012 and June 30 of this year, some 60 percent of them concerning violations of the...

Turkish court seeks Interpol Red Notice for prominent publisher Zarakolu

A Turkish court has decided to seek an Interpol Red Notice for Ragıp Zarakolu, a publisher, writer and free speech activist, as well as...

UN report details human rights abuses in areas under Turkish military control

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a monthly report for June details large-scale human rights abuses in areas under...

ATO report exposes Ankara detention center as a 21st century concentration camp

“There is no official detention or arrest center at the Ankara Police Department’s counterterrorism branch, and in the 21st century, in the capital of...

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