“We are angry, we are frustrated” was the message from Turkey’s civil society on Tuesday night as news broke that Osman Kavala had been re-arrested on fresh charges, just hours after his long-awaited ...
Civil Rights Defenders joins a host of civil society organisations in Turkey to announce the creation of the country’s first network of human rights defenders. On Tuesday morning, the Solidarity Netwo...
According to many human rights defenders, the situation in Turkey is worse than ever. The number of detained journalists is growing at the same time as the censorship laws are becoming stricter. This ...
19 individuals charged for joining in Pride Legal harassments targeting the LGBTI+ community and rights defenders in Turkey reached new heights with the acceptance of an indictment charging 19 LGBTI+ ...
In coming days, Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel, will be sent to prison in Turkey. Her crime is signing a petition denouncing the Turkish government’s violation of human rights in the Kurdish-populated ...
In recent years, especially since the failed coup-attempt on 15 July 2016, the human rights situation has deteriorated significantly in the country. The pressure over civil society in Turkey has inten...
Turkish human rights defender Osman Kavala who are, since november 2017, imprisoned pending trial, along with 15 other civil society actors, all of whom are accused of “attempting to overthrow the gov...
Civil Rights Defenders is calling on the Turkish authorities to immediately release Osman Kavala, a prominent human rights defender who was arrested one year ago, with no indictment yet filed agains...
Turkey’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex, LGBTI, community celebrated the Istanbul Pride parade on Sunday, 1 July 2018. The organisers pressed ahead with the march despite Turkish authoriti...
Today, Civil Rights Defenders launches the report A State in Emergency – When Exceptions Become The New Norm which highlights the situation for human rights defenders in Turkey. The continuing state o...
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