rights violations

Approximately 20,100 applications from Turkey are pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), making it the highest case-count country since Aug. 1,...

According to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) statistics, 26.3 percent of applications pending before the court as of October 31, 2022 had come from...

A former Turkish justice minister has warned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) might cancel the standing as a domestic remedy of...

A number of Turkish rights activists addressed the issue of human rights violations in Turkey, with an emphasis on political prisoners, during the 3rd...

Turkey’s Constitutional Court received 428,554 individual applications between 2012 and June 30 of this year, with some 70 percent of them concerning violations of...

Bünyamin Tekin, StrasbourgHundreds of activists and victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown, joined by former leader of the UK's Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and EU...

Bünyamin Tekin, StrasbourgThe former leader of the UK's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who currently serves as a member of the British parliament, has described...

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has built more than 200 prisons in the past 16 years and continues to allocate large funds...

A special team assembled upon the orders of Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ will be asking prison administrations in the country about the widespread...

Minorities and refugees in Turkey continued to suffer from rights violations, hate speech and attacks throughout the year. President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his...

Erkam Özkaya, a father of four arrested for links to the Gülen movement, said he hadn’t seen his family for more than two years...

The Turkish Constitutional Court found no rights violations in the case of academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, both of whom were fired...