Lawyer Ömer Turanlı has called on human rights organizations and the relevant commissions of the EU to immediately monitor incidents taking place in Turkey’s prisons while expressing grave concerns about the safety of his clients due to claims of a staged riot. In a series of messages from his Twitter account on Sunday, Turanlı, who […]
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A total of 36 law societies and bar associations from European Union and other countries have released a written statement condemning Turkey’s efforts to reintroduce capital punishment in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt. Below is the full text of the statement released on Oct. 20. “The right to life is guaranteed by
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Edzard Reuter, the son of the first mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter and the former chairman of the German automaker Daimler-Benz, said Turkey’s post-coup purge recalls what happened during early years of Nazi regime at his home country. Reuter was forced to flee Germany to Turkey along with his family when Nazis consolidated power
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Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, on Friday called for the suspension of membership negotiations with Turkey, following a crackdown on opposition Kurdish deputies in the country. Speaking to a Dutch media outlet, Piri reacted strongly against the detention of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs on Friday. During the early hours of the operation,
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A coalition of 14 leading international press freedom and freedom of expression organizations, in a letter sent today to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and high-ranking Turkish officials, condemned the jailing of top journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper and the closure of 15 pro-Kurdish media outlets, calling the acts an “extraordinary attack on press freedom.”
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The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two elected mayors in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir over the course of two days is evidence of a deepening crackdown in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Police on Monday
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“More than 110,000 people have been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested since the coup attempt; just over the weekend, 10,000 more civil servants were dismissed,” an article released by the editorial board of Washington Post read on Oct. 31, before adding: “This is a colossal purge, tearing the heart out of any remaining hope for
Daniel Holtgen, director of communications at the Council of Europe (CoE) and spokesperson of Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland, has dismissed plans by Turkey to introduce the death penalty, saying that such a move would be against membership in the council. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that legislation to reinstate capital punishment, which was
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In a written statement issued on Monday, the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) condemned the new wave of media repression by Turkish authorities following the detention of Murat Sabuncu, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet and of other journalists. Amid widespread concerns over deteriorating freedom of the press in Turkey, Turkey on Monday detained
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The International Press Institute (IPI) has called on Turkish government to immediately release its board member, Turkish columnist Kadri Gürsel and other Cumhuriyet journalists detained on Monday. Amid widespread concerns over deteriorating freedom of the press in Turkey, Turkey on Monday detained 13 journalists from the secularist and critical Cumhuriyet daily including the paper’s Editor-in-Chief
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