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HRW calls on May to speak out on human rights during Erdoğan visit

David Mepham, the UK director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to use the visit of Turkish President...

UN: Turkey must end state of emergency to enable credible elections

"Protracted restrictions on the human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in...

AI: Chilling climate of fear sweeping across Turkey under state of emergency

"A chilling climate of fear is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the...

EU calls on Turkey to end state of emergency

The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to "lift the state of emergency without delay," saying that widespread dismissals, arrests...

HRF calls on Kosovo PM to obey int’l human rights law on six detained Turks 

The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Friday sent a letter to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj requesting him to apply the non-refoulment...

PACE co-rapporteurs to make fact-finding visit to Turkey

Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...

Turkey calls UN Human Rights Office ‘collaborator of terrorist organizations’

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a blistering response to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein after his office released a report...

UN reports on human rights violations and abuses in southeast Turkey

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday reported on allegations that the human rights violations and abuses...

[OPINION] Erdoğan gov’t attacks UN for raising rights violations in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt As the free world turns up the heat on the repressive regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey with increased vigilance and...

US calls on Turkey to cease human rights abuses, restore democracy

A member of the Delegation of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council in an address during the organization’s 37th session in...

Ankara slams EP over Turkey resolution: null and void

Turkey lambasted the European Parliament over a resolution adopted on Thursday demanding that Ankara lift an ongoing state of emergency, calling it "null and...

[UPDATE] EP members call on Turkey to end post-coup state of emergency

Members of the European Parliament have called on Turkey to lift an ongoing state of emergency declared after a failed coup in July 2016...

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