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...
Read Civil Rights Defenders latest report A State in Emergency – When Exceptions Become The New Norm which highlights the situation for human rights defenders in Turkey. The continuing state of emerge...
On 1 February 2018, the Istanbul 35th Heavy Penal Court decided to re-detain Taner Kılıç only hours after he was released from jail. The decision came after the prosecutor filed an appeal against the ...
Turkish human rights defender Murat Çelikkan has been awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2018. Murat Çelikkan is a journalist by profession, and one of the most tenacious voices for h...
Turkey has banned all events related to, or organised by, LGBT organisations in its capital Ankara. Citing public “sensitives” and “security”, the official authorities in Ankara label LGBT activism as...
The Turkish human rights defender Murat Çelikkan, who is facing an 18 months’ prison sentence, has turned himself into prison after the Istanbul Regional Court rejected his plea. Civil Rights Defender...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the arrest and arbitrary detention of eight human rights defenders in Turkey on 5 July 2017. The arrest took place during a workshop titled “Protection of Human Rights ...
Prominent Turkish human rights defender and Co-Director of Hafiza Merkezi (Truth Justice Memory Centre), Murat Çelikkan was charged on 16 May under “terror organization propaganda” and sentenced by su...