Turkey

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 organisation propaganda” and sentenced by su...