Robert Spano, chief judge of the European Court of Human Rights, has paid a three-days visit to Turkey on the invitation of the Turkish Ministry of Justice. The visit occurred amidst the tension between the St...Read More...
16 international NGOs urged Turkish Government not to discriminate against political prisoners in its forthcoming early parole bill. The Arrested Lawyers Initiative, European Federation of Journalists, ...Read More...
Täglich kommen immer mehr Details über die Umerziehungslager aus der Provinz Chinas Xinjiang ans Tageslicht. Während die Regierung die Menschenrechtsverletzungen an den Uighuren dort immer noch als Bildungsmaß...Read More...
“For the lifting of Turkey’s two-year state of emergency to have been anything more than a cosmetic exercise, it needed to be accompanied by urgent measures. These have not been taken. Instead Turkey’s brutal crackdown against journalists, activists, lawyers, academics and other civil society actors has continued unabated. NGOs and newspapers have been shut down and even simple celebrations such as Pride Parades have been banned or restricted. As the students of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara discovered in May, those trying to defy these bans are met with police batons and tear gas.” Stefan Simanowitz – Media Manager, Amnesty International
An old Kurdish adage says that “Kurds have no friends but the mountains”. A long history of persecution promoted by successive Turkish governments targeting Kurds adds weight to the argument. Among the Turkish...Read More...
Wir haben uns mit der Journalistin Meşale Tolu zum Interview getroffen, um uns über ihr neu herausgekommenes Buch „Mein Sohn bleibt bei mir!“ (Rowohlt Verlag) zu unterhalten. Tolu wurde nach dem Puts...Read More...
Summary The European Convention on Human Rights is a comprehensive system that sets the European standards for the protection of fundamental human rights. However, under certain circumstances, the contracti...Read More...
The State of Emergency (SoE), which was declared in the aftermath of the controversial coup attempt of 15 July 2016, was lifted on 18 July 2018. But its end does not mark the return of the rule of law in ...Read More...
Leighann Spencer, rights defender and editor of platformpj.org wrote the inadequacies of the ECtHR vis a vis Turkey. In her article "The ECtHR and Post-coup Turkey: Losing Ground or Losing Credibility?" p...Read More...
