Robert Spano’s visit to Turkey and a specific visit to see President Erdoğan has drawn criticism from various quarters. Spano is the president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Read More
The President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Robert Spano, made a key speech at the Justice Academy of Turkey. Spano was visiting Turkey for the first time and made a presentation at the ’24th Term Training of Prospective Judges and Prosecutors’ session. The title of his speech was “Judicial Independence – The […]Read More
Following the Court of Cassation’s decision to release him, Aytaç Ünsal left hospital on a stretcher and said: “We will win!”Read More
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC’s) experts made a statement concerning the death of lawyer Ebru Timtik on 2 September. The experts called on Turkey to launch an effective investigation into Timtik’s death and to release other human rights defenders.Read More
Aytaç Ünsal, a 31-year-old lawyer, has been on a death fast for two hundred and eleven days. Ünsal’s demand is for a fair trial. He had been charged with membership of a ‘terrorist’ organisation, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party (DHKP-C), along with eighteen lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Organization (ÇHD).Read More
Jacob S. Blake is a 29-year-old African American man who was shot by the police on 23 August 2020 in the United States of America. The full details of the incident which took place in Kenosha city, Wisconsin state, are yet to be revealed. Josh Kaul, the Wisconsin attorney general, announced that the name of […]Read More
The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa.Read More
Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) lawyers were sentenced to prison terms of over 159 years on March 20 in Turkey. Ebru Timtik was one of these lawyers.Read More
Written by Uğur Deniz Türeli, Araz, Özçalımlı … Their deaths are the recent ones. Suspicious deaths of soldiers have continued with regularity since the 1990’s. Often, those deaths are officially stated to be either “suicide”, “friendly fire” or “training casualties”. But is this really the case? Unshared data, contradictions and the truth are proof that […]Read More
The first Ordinary Congress of the Anatolian Association for Aid and Solidarity with Families who lost their Relatives (ANYAKAY-DER) was held. Halit Batan and Sultani Yağmekan were elected as co-chairs at the congress. Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair, Leyla Güven, said: “Our work will not stop until Öcalan is free, the prisons are emptied and […]Read More
