Human Rights
Anti-LGBT rhetoric becomes pillar of Erdogan’s election campaign
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's May 14 election campaign is based solely on claims that the opposition is...
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Colonel’s testimony reveals Turkish police threatened rape of his wife and daughters unless he signed a false statement
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Former colonel Arif Kalkan, who worked in the intelligence section of the Turkish Gendarmerie Command, revealed details of the...
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Europe’s largest lawyers organization calls on Turkish government to stop criminalizing their colleagues
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bar associations and law societies...
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Turkish judge at Europe’s top human rights court defends government’s false arguments during proceedings
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) convened on Wednesday to hear the case...
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Report that Ankara Bar Association previously refused to publish reveals torture at a police station
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Ankara Bar Association last January had decided not to publish a report drafted by the bar’s Human...
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Torture in Turkey continuously goes unpunished: report
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Torture and inhuman treatment are continuously increasing in Turkey, and investigations into state officials who commit these crimes are either...
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Turkish journalist sentenced to nearly 300 years in prison for smearing al-Qaeda linked jihadists
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A prominent Turkish journalist who was accused of defaming an al-Qaeda-linked radical group that endorsed Osama bin...
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UN report implies Turkey may have committed war crimes with civilian deaths in Syria attacks
Levent Kenez/Stockholm There are reasonable grounds to believe that the use of unguided explosive weapons to strike urban areas...
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Erdoğan gov’t lifted visa exemption at Turkmenistan’s request, preventing Turkmen dissidents from leaving the country
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a decision published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday, lifted a visa...
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Court documents show dissident academic with heart disease deliberately sent to die in prison
Nordic Monitor/Stockholm According to court documents obtained by Nordic Monitor, academic Tuğrul Özşengül, who died in prison on Saturday of...
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