International Reactions

The Swiss foreign ministry issued a statement on Wednesday warning travelers to Turkey against entry and exit bans and imprisonment without due process. The statement drew attention to the state of emergency, declared in the aftermath of a botched coup attempt on July 15, 2016 which has given the Turkish government the authority to limit […]

Germany and Sweden have made a joint protest addressed to Turkey over the jailing of human rights activists, German Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Martin Schaefer said on Wednesday. Turkey arrested six human rights activists including Germany’s Peter Steudtner and Swedish Ali Gharavi on terrorism charges earlier this month. The arrestees included Amnesty International’s Turkey director İdil

PEN International, said in call to Turkish government that “never in the near-100 year history of PEN have we recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time.” Below is the full text of the statement which was published in 5 languages and signed by 34 PEN centres around the world on

It seems that the Turkey’s intelligence spies have a command center in The Hague, the leading Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said suggesting that Turkish operatives may have been using this place to draw up death lists involving leading Kurdish figures in Europe. The newspaper mentioned a secret tape recording between Kurdish-origin Mustafa Karatas from Hamburg

Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt of the Gulen movement followers is tantamount to genocide, Renee Vaugeois, a Canadian human rights specialist said in a recent interview. “This a targeted war on a specific group of people in Turkey and to me that speaks to genocide,” Vaugeois, the executive director of the Edmonton-based John Humphrey Centre for Peace &

Eight human rights activists and two trainers who were detained during a during a digital security and information management workshop organized by Amnesty International (AI) in İstanbul last week are at significant risk of torture, a U.N. human rights spokesman said on Friday. According to Reuters, Elizabeth Throssell, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for

A new study has revealed that the Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of the past, primarily confined to the dark period of the 1990s, when mainly Kurds were victimized, according to the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF). The brutal regime of Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip

More than 700 out of 950 Turkish military officers serving at NATO and in Turkish diplomatic missions around the world are estimated to have been purged as part of a government crackdown on dissent launched after a failed coup attempt last summer, BBC reported on Thursday. According to a BBC interview with two high-ranking members of the

A resolution calling for the freezing of European Union membership negotiations with Turkey if Ankara implements a constitutional overhaul, backed by a referendum in April, was adopted by a large majority of the vote in the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday. The resolution, proposed by Turkey rapporteur for the EP Kati Piri and passed by

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said that detention of women on coup charges shortly after giving birth is unacceptable, and called on Turkish authorities to stop “acting out of vengeance” in post-coup operations. Speaking during a live show on HaberTürk TV on Monday, Kılıçdaroğlu said drew attention to the human tragedies caused