Five children are among 45 migrants who have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya. The UN’s refugee agency, UNCHR, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have described this as “the largest registered shipwreck” this year.Read More
According to the Rudaw News: “Based upon the data provided by five civil society organizations’ reports on the prosecution process against journalists in Turkey, at least 92 media workers are reported to be in prison as of 30 June 2020”.Read More
The Development Workshop has just published a report focusing upon the plight of “People who were left behind during the pandemic”. It is a participant observation based report that examines the extent to which seasonal (i.e., migrant) agricultural labourers and their children have suffered from discrimination in Turkey.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar / Istanbul ANKARA – Concerns over two Turkish lawyers who launched a hunger strike demanding a ‘fair trial’ grow after the much-debated decision of a court rejecting their release and ordering their hospitalization. Human rights defenders believe this is a threat of ‘forced medical intervention’.Read More
The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) have issued a programme in support of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) “Democratic Struggle Programme”. It will take place across eight cities in ten days.Read More
Two workers engaged in beltway construction lost their lives due to the collapse of heavy construction equipment in the Suruç (Pirsus) distict of the city of Urfa (Riha) in Turkey.Read More
Istanbul KESK (the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions) Women’s Council protested against the detention of their executives and members and demanded their immediate release.Read More
Turkey was the first country to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (popularly referred to as the ‘Istanbul Convention’). It aims to prevent violence, provide victim protection and to end the impunity of perpetratorsRead More
“They are threatening me”, Private Osman Özçalımlı told his father by phone on the first day of Eid al-Adha. Stationed at İzmir Aliağa High Security Prison, doing his short-term military service, he was found dead the next day after this conversation.Read More
Ender Zaman / Istanbul Political dissidents will be increasingly imprisoned in their homes using electronic shackles. Turkey is set to begin ‘local’ production of electronic shackles, which are described as one of the new ‘instruments’ of use in the modern penal system. Legalists have noted that this will be a further blow against freedom of […]Read More
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