Platform for Peace & Justice (PPJ) has released its comprehensive report on the prison conditions in Turkey during the State of Emergency declared in the wake of failed coup attempt in July 2016. The report...Read More...
By MAHMUT AKPINAR Iraqi Kurdistan, which was a federal state of Iraq, held a referendum on independence. Some reactions came in the region primarily from the Iraqi Government, Iran and Turkey against t...Read More...
By PPJ PACE has pointed to “serious problems” with the rule of law in many Council of Europe member states – singling out five countries where it says some recent developments have “put at risk” respect ...Read More...
M. BEHZAT FATMI A Turkish family living in the Pakistani city of Lahore was abducted from their apartment in the early hours of September 27 by people in civilian clothes who claimed to be police officer...Read More...
People in Turkey accused of links with terrorism or with the 2016 military coup attempt have been tortured in police custody, while others have been abducted, amidst growing evidence of detention abuses, Human ...Read More...
By MEHMET EFE ÇAMAN (This article is originally published in Turkish by tr724.com on 5 October 2017 ) Nationalism had been one of the prominent reasons for the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It was b...Read More...
By PPJ The fifth Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to Turkish supporter of the independence of the judiciary M...Read More...
By PPJ Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), an international civil society organization dedicated to culture of peace, human rights, and sustainable development, has released a report on the...Read More...
By BULENT KENES (This article is originally published on tr724.com in Turkish) How would a Kurd feel? I do not know exactly myself either, because I am not Kurdish. But I am a human being an...Read More...