Human Rights Defender Prof. Dr. Haluk Savaş, gave a Wide Interview to Youm7, the...
Human Rights Defender and Psychiatrist. Prof.Dr.Haluk Savaş gave a broad and striking interview to Youm7, the respected newspaper...
The Coronavirus Is Prompting Middle East Regimes to Release Prisoners. But Journalists and Activists...
When Turkish writer and economist Mehmet Altan went for a medical check-up on his release from Istanbul’s Silivri prison in 2018, his...
No exceptions with COVID-19: “Everyone has the right to life-saving interventions”
GENEVA (26 March 2020) – The COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only; all other...
Medical staff sacked with gov’t decrees want to contribute to fight against coronavirus
Turkey’s medical staff sacked with statutory decrees (KHK) have been calling on the government to reinstate them back to their jobs amid...
Sacked by emergency decree, Turkish corona-virus researcher excluded from fight against pandemic
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu put forward parliamentary questions to Turkey’s Justice Ministry on...
UN committee asks Turkey to submit defense upon application of man sacked with emergency...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has asked Turkey to submit its defense following an application by...
Turkey: Failure to act on European Court judgments puts freedom of expression at risk
ARTICLE 19 and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) have warned that the rights to freedom of expression and assembly...
Dismissed civil servants continue fight to restore rights in Turkey
ISTANBUL — Ali Riza Gungen has been fighting to get his job back since he was dismissed in November 2016. Once a professor of...
Years after coup, purged civil servants feel trapped in Turkey
Diego Cupolo from Al-Monitor reports current situation of dismissed civil servants in Turkey and their fights for regaining jobs and basic...
Turkish mother fights to free cadet son from life sentence
ANKARA – Wearing a colorful headscarf and long coat to guard against a bitter Ankara frost, Turkish mother Melek Cetinkaya would not...