International Reactions

Turkish police detained at least 80 people who are known to have been involved in activities to endorse a “No” vote in the upcoming presidential referendum, according to Transparency International’s (TI) Turkey branch. TI Turkey said it will monitor the incidents of right abuse and unlawful government actions in the run up to the referendum […]

A famous and leftist Turkish singer and writer Zülfü Livaneli has said the intellectuals in Turkey today are very much like the intellectuals of the Nazi Germany as they are forced to take side with the government, or else they face retribution in many forms. In an interview published by the Cumhuriyet daily on Sunday,

In the face of growing efforts by the Turkish government to silence critical voices in Turkey, PEN International has vowed to continue to stand with Turkish journalists and intellectuals, according to PEN President Jennifer Clement. The Haberdar news portal reported on Friday that Clement said that in the wake of an attempted coup on July

Turkey’s purge of its military since a botched coup in July has cut its armed forces by a third according to the Council of Europe, Reuters reported adding that NATO raised concerns that Turkey’s response to the failed coup has worryingly thinned its forces. The council, Europe’s leading human rights organization with 47 member states including