Robert Spano, new president of the European Court of Human Rights gave an online interview to Mikael Rask Madsen. The interview is followed by a series of questions sent by online audience. It was not a surpris...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...
In Turkey, legal conflicts that arise out of the State’s intervention in the right to property are hardly a new problem. Between 1959 and 2018, the ECtHR rendered 3128 judgments against Turkey, establishing...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
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...
In the follow up to the attempted coup in July 2016, the Turkish government launched an unprecedented attack on press freedom: Thousands of journalists lost of their jobs, hundreds were arrested on terror char...Read More...
Turkey has been going through a catastrophic period since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and launch of a corruption probe into President Erdogan’s family and members of his cabinet in December of the same year...Read More...
Following the coup attempt in Turkey on 15 July 2016, a state of emergency (OHAL - in Turkish) was declared on 21 July 2016. On 23 July 2016, the first legislative decree, Emergency Decree Law (EDL) No. 667, wa...Read More...
As this piece was being penned, Turkey, Iran and Russia were winding up their eleventh high level meeting on Syria in Astana, Kazakhstan. They reiterated their commitment to a ceasefire in Idlib and to i...Read More...
The independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Turkish judiciary have been in a dramatic decline especially since the coup attempt in July 2016 and the following state of emergency regime and therea...Read More...
