Turkey detention of human rights defenders

by Abdullah BozkurtThe primary reason why Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his associates target human rights defenders by bringing absurd terrorism and...

The detention of a group of human rights defenders who were taken into custody last Wednesday during a workshop at a hotel on İstanbul’s...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused a group of recently detained human rights defenders of plotting a follow-up to a July 15, 2016 coup...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom,...

US Department of State Spokesperson Heather Nauert has said the United States is deeply concerned by the detention of human rights defenders from Amnesty...

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's (CoE) commissioner for human rights, on Thursday said he is extremely concerned about the detention of eight human...