The Crisis in Cizre continues
Amnesty International today renewed its call for Turkish authorities to allow emergency medical care for injured individuals stranded in a basement in the town of Cizre, where they sought shelter on 23...
View ArticleAmnesty: Turkish Rights Abuses Must Not be Forgotten
When Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu arrived in Netherlands today for one-day talks with his counterpart, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, activists from Amnesty International were there to...
View ArticleAmnesty’s Annual Report 2015: “Marked Deterioration” of Human Rights in Turkey
In a few short pages, Amnesty International’s 2015 Annual Report detailed a rapidly deteriorating human rights environment in Turkey, particularly after the 2015 parliamentary elections and the...
View ArticleAmnesty: Freedom of Expression in Turkey Deteriorates in 2015
Riot police break the main entrance of the İpek Media Group headquarters in İstanbul during the raid on Wednesday. (Photo: Today’s Zaman) “Countless unfair criminal prosecutions, including under...
View ArticleCelebrate Dündar and Gül’s release, but recognize broader attack on press...
Can Dündar, the Cumhuriyet daily’s editor-in-chief hugs his wife Dilek, after being freed from Silivri prison in Istanbul. Photograph: Vedat Arik/AFP/Getty Images With a ruling by Turkey’s...
View ArticleAmnesty International condemns take-over of newspaper
Protestors hold placards reading “free media cannot be silenced” in front of Zaman headquarters on Dec.14, 2014. (Photo: AP) In a sharply-worded response, Amnesty International described today’s...
View ArticleCondolence Book for Tahir Elçi
Human Rights defender Tahir Elçi was killed in Diyarbakir 28 November 2015 Human rights lawyer/defender Tahir Elçi was shot dead in Diyarbakir on 28 November 2015. You may recall that Amnesty...
View ArticleAmnesty: Turkey’s escalating abuses risk return to dark days of 1990s
A woman cries in front of a damaged mosque in Sur district in Diyarbakir, on Dec 11, 2015. (Photo: AFP/Ilyas Akengin) The message of Amnesty’s latest statement on abuses in Turkey’s on-going operations...
View ArticleAmnesty: HDP deputies detained amid growing onslaught on Kurdish opposition...
Turkish police secure the area in front of the headquarters of the HDP during an operation in Ankara on Friday. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY The detention of 12 deputies from the Kurdish-rooted...
View ArticleAmnesty Issues Urgent Action: Hundreds at Imminent Risk of Forced Eviction
Amnesty International today issued an Urgent Action calling on Turkey to halt forced evictions in the Sur District of Diyarbakir. A resident of Sur walks past a ‘no to demolition’ graffiti. Used by...
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