Turkey sticks to policy of denial on Ecumenical Patriarchate’s status, government letter reveals
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey continues to deny the ecumenical status of the leader of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide by ...
Tag: human rights
Brazilan Supreme Court draws the line: No extradition for Erdogan’s political foes
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm When Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF) Justice Flávio Dino revoked the detention of Turkish-Brazilian national Mustafa ...
Erdoğan uses Turkish intelligence agency MIT to silence critics, threaten foreign nations
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The notorious Turkish intelligence service, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MIT), long regarded as a loyal enforcer of President Recep ...
In today’s Turkey, threats to kill Americans and Jews are deemed protected free speech
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In yet another troubling sign of Turkey’s increasingly partisan judiciary — dominated by Islamists and far-right nationalists — ...
Turkey secretly plots to bypass INTERPOL rules to target exiled journalist in Sweden
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A classified memo issued by Turkey’s Security General Directorate (Emniyet) reveals covert efforts to circumvent INTERPOL rules in ...
UN puts a spotlight on Turkey’s jailing of lawyers, judges in sham cases
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey was put on notice by the United Nations for a systematic and deliberate campaign to crack ...
Turkish gov’t refuses to release inmates despite detection of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons
Nordic Monitor President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from ...
Turkish diplomat who coordinated abductions in Kosovo named human rights chief in Turkey
Nordic Monitor In what can be seen as a scandalous move by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
Ailing, elderly man with serious health problems abused in Turkish prison
An ailing 71-year-old Turkish businessman who was thrown in jail on trumped-up terrorism charges has suffered ill treatment and ...
Secret document exposes Turkey’s criminal probes of legal NGOs, managers
The Turkish government has gone after critics, opponents and dissidents, using membership in duly authorized and officially registered nongovernmental ...
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