International Reactions

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has named Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the winner of several categories in their recognition of world leaders who have gone out of their way to attack the press and undermine the norms that support freedom of the media, including the most thin skinned and the most outrageous […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it was appalled by a new Turkish decree that introduces single uniform for people imprisoned in the government’s post-coup purge. In a written statement on Thursday, RSF said the “arbitrary measure will violate the right of dozens of detained Turkish journalists to be presumed innocent.” According to government’s new post-coup

Members of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists have staged a protest in Tunis in solidarity with journalists jailed in Turkey, ahead of a visit to Tunisia by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to several Tunisian and Turkish media outlets, the goal of the protest was to “send a massage of protest against the

Turkey has remained the worst jailer of journalists in the world for the second consecutive year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Wednesday. Releasing its annual press freedom report, CPJ said: “Despite releasing some journalists in 2017, Turkey remains the world’s worst jailer for the second consecutive year, with 73 journalists behind bars,

Human Rights Watch’s Turkey director Emma Sinclair-Webb said the government’s post-coup crackdown is aimed at establishing an empire of fear in the country. Speaking at a rights symposium in the eastern province of Diyarbakir on Monday, she said arbitrariness is the best word to describe the post-coup period in Turkey. There are detentions, arrests, dismissals

Journalists and writers’ associations from across the world has said in a joint statement Thursday that the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) role in ensuring justice for Turkey’s post-coup victims “has become ever more important.” “…considering the many fair trial violations, we have observed throughout our trial monitoring as well as the many other human

More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors, technicians and hospital staff have thus far been dismissed from public and private hospitals as well as medical schools and associations in Turkey as part of a crackdown on perceived critics of the government, research by the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has revealed.

A new report from the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) titled “Tortured to Death” exposes the case of 42-year-old history teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who died after enduring 13 days of torture and abuse in police detention in İstanbul. The report details every day he was kept in custody, where he was repeatedly beaten by his

The University of Oslo (UIO) has granted the 2017 Human Rights Award to Turkish academic and activist Professor İştar Gözaydın for her efforts towards freedoms and human rights in Turkey. Professor Gözaydın, who spent some four months in prison after last year’s coup attempt in Turkey, told UIO’s Uniforma newspaper that she was honored by the

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday reacted to the arrest of civil activist and businessman Osman Kavala by a Turkish court, calling it an example of the politicized and arbitrary nature of Turkey’s justice system. Kavala was arrested on Wednesday on charges of “attempting to overthrow the constitutional order” and “attempting to remove the government