Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal from the main opposition party to abrogate a coronavirus release law that allowed some 90,000 inmates to...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday criticized Turkey for discriminating against political prisoners in its early release law enacted to ease overcrowding in prisons...
Mehmet Tahsin
A terrible play had a two-week run at the Turkish
parliament. The speaker of parliament, the justice minister and deputies
performed their roles poorly. It...
Turkey’s
parliament on Tuesday passed a law that will allow the release of tens of thousands
of prisoners to ease overcrowding in jails and protect detainees...
Turkey’s parliament debated a prisoner release bill on
Tuesday that aims to ease overcrowding in prisons and protect detainees from
the coronavirus but which critics slam...
Thomas Hammarberg and John Howell,
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the
monitoring of Turkey, on Friday urged Turkish authorities to ensure...
A committee in the
Turkish Parliament on Saturday approved a bill that will allow the release of
up to 100,000 inmates from Turkey’s overcrowded prisons due...
Amnesty
International has published an online petition to Turkish authorities, urging them
to avoid an exclusion of political prisoners from the scope of a bill aimed...
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...
Amnesty
International and 26 other rights groups and civil society organizations from
Turkey and around the world on Monday released a joint statement calling for
the release...
Sixteen
international NGOs on Wednesday released a joint statement calling on the
Turkish government to refrain from discriminating against political prisoners
in its bill aimed at relieving...
