International Reactions

The number of Turkish citizens who fled Turkey following a failed coup last year and applied for asylum in Germany reached 620 in July, over 433 in June and 498 May, the German Interior Ministry said on Thursday. According to a Deutsche Welle report on Thursday, the German Interior Ministry replied to a parliamentary question from the […]

Turkey has been misusing arrest warrants it issues in cooperation with Interpol, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “We must not misuse international organizations like Interpol for such purposes,” she said. Merkel’s statement came only a day after Doğan Akhanlı, a Turkish-born German author was detained by Spanish police at Turkey’s request. “(Akhanli’s) is

Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk said Turkey has imprisoned so many innocent people in arbitrary ways very recently, leading him to feel guilty even when working. In an interview with the US-based Slate magazine on Aug 18, Pamuk said: “As I tell my girlfriend, all the time one feels guilty when one is just happy

According to the International Press Institute (IPI) currently a total of 171 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey due to their journalistic activities. The international media watchdog called for the immediate release of jailed journalists in Turkey on its website while displaying the cases of all 171 reporters and charges against them on Friday. IPI runs

Aseem Trivedi, a free speech activist and cartoonist has drawn cartoons of 15 mothers and their newly born babies, who have been detained or arrested by the Turkish government on coup charges either when they are pregnant or shortly after giving birth. Triverdi published the cartoons in the “Black & White – Online Cartoon Magazine for Human Rights” on Wednesday to

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme between the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has urged Turkey to release jailed human rights defenders in the country. The Observatory urges Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release these individuals and put an end to all

WeltN24, the German media group that publishes Die Welt daily newspaper, has lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), over Turkey’s jailing of journalist Deniz Yücel. The veteran Die Welt reporter was first detained as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and disappearances, which may have been enforced, in Ankara of at least four men, who have been missing since March 2017. “There are credible grounds to believe that government agents forcibly disappeared the missing men. The Turkish

Turkey is going through its darkest and gloomiest days in terms of rule of law, the right to a fair trial and even the most fundamental rights and liberties, which are major benchmarks for democracy. Intellectuals, journalists, critical politicians, businesspeople, celebrities and media organizations are being silenced via threats and jailed. A recent report released by

‘FETÖ Syndrome’ has emerged as an ever-spreading paranoia that causes many people to leave Turkey while also preventing many others even from shopping at the grocery stores considered as tied to the Gülen movement, according to Turkish psychotherapist Çağatay Öztürk. FETÖ is a derogatory buzzword, coined by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who calls the Gülen