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...
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...
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...
My son is not a coup plotter: A mother’s struggle to prove her cadet...
For the past couple of months, a woman has protested the plight of military students who were sentenced to life imprisonments over...
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...
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...
Polémica en BBVA: Su filial turca no acepta a los disidentes de Erdogan
Nuevo golpe a la reputación del BBVA. Sin recuperarse de la crisis de imagen más seria que ha sufrido tras su imputación...
Mass firings in Turkey: ‘We have been given a social death sentence’
Fifty-six-year-old Tahsin Uysal used to worked as a teacher in the southern Turkish city of Adana. He's one of tens of thousands of civil...
He Observed a Protest. Now He Faces a Possible Life Sentence.
When the police banged on his door and took him away for questioning one dawn in November 2018, Yigit Aksakoglu assumed he...