International Reactions

According to the annual global census of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), as of December 1, globally a record number of journalists, a total of 259 are imprisoned, as a result of Turkey’s “unprecedented crackdown.” The census finds that at least 81 journalists in Turkey are jailed, ¨the highest number in any one country

The ongoing purge of alleged coup plotters in Turkey’s armed forces has “degraded” Nato’s command operations, according to the alliance’s top general. General Curtis Scaparrotti, Nato’s supreme allied commander in Europe, said during a meeting at the headquarters of the alliance in Brussels that Turkish gov’t has expelled officers who served well in Nato, Financial

Representatives from nine international and Turkish journalism organizations, including PEN International and Reporters Without Borders, will come together in front of Silivri Prison on Saturday in support of 146 journalists who are behind bars in Turkey. Family members of the jailed journalists will also be at Silivri Prison, where the press organizations will release a

The Council of Europe’s (COE) expert body on legal and constitutional affairs, the Venice Commission, on Friday adopted an opinion stating that Turkey has gone too far with emergency measures after acknowledging that the country had faced a dangerous armed conspiracy. According to a press release from the commission’s legal experts, Turkey had good reason

Authoritarianism in the form of political Islam revealed its true face in Turkey during Gezi Park Protests, tested its sovereignty by unlawfully responding to operations against corruption scandals in December 17-25 period and by forming collusive alliances. After 15 July 2016, this authoritarian trend transformed itself into creating a “new ideology” and “building a new

“Freedom of expression is in acute danger in Turkey, but it’s not only there. All over the globe there are tendencies against freedom of words, freedom of opinion, freedom of religion; against gender, against sexual orientation. The destroyers and opinion-leaders have many names: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” said a letter penned by

The European Parliament has voted to suspend Turkey’s EU membership talks because of the Turkish government’s “disproportionate” response to a failed coup attempt that took place on July 15. A total of 479 deputies voted in favor of imposing a “temporary freeze” on the talks with Turkey while 37 deputies voted against the non-binding resolution.

The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, said in a report released on Nov. 18 that the Turkish government is employing widespread measures to erode independent opinion and expression in Turkey and urged Turkish authorities to reverse this course and return to protecting and promoting those

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a Pakistani student who attends a Turkish school in Islamabad bursts into tears after she learned the Pakistani government had decided to expel 108 Turkish teachers from 28 international schools across the country. “To every other teacher, to every other person on this planet, to all the Turkish