No exceptions with COVID-19: “Everyone has the right to life-saving interventions”
GENEVA (26 March 2020) – The COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only; all other...
Dismissed civil servants continue fight to restore rights in Turkey
ISTANBUL — Ali Riza Gungen has been fighting to get his job back since he was dismissed in November 2016. Once a professor of...
Polémica en BBVA: Su filial turca no acepta a los disidentes de Erdogan
Nuevo golpe a la reputación del BBVA. Sin recuperarse de la crisis de imagen más seria que ha sufrido tras su imputación...
Years after coup, purged civil servants feel trapped in Turkey
Diego Cupolo from Al-Monitor reports current situation of dismissed civil servants in Turkey and their fights for regaining jobs and basic...
Medical staff sacked with gov’t decrees want to contribute to fight against coronavirus
Turkey’s medical staff sacked with statutory decrees (KHK) have been calling on the government to reinstate them back to their jobs amid...
My son is not a coup plotter: A mother’s struggle to prove her cadet...
For the past couple of months, a woman has protested the plight of military students who were sentenced to life imprisonments over...
Sacked by emergency decree, Turkish corona-virus researcher excluded from fight against pandemic
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu put forward parliamentary questions to Turkey’s Justice Ministry on...
Turkish mother fights to free cadet son from life sentence
ANKARA – Wearing a colorful headscarf and long coat to guard against a bitter Ankara frost, Turkish mother Melek Cetinkaya would not...
Turkey: Failure to act on European Court judgments puts freedom of expression at risk
ARTICLE 19 and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) have warned that the rights to freedom of expression and assembly...
Mass firings in Turkey: ‘We have been given a social death sentence’
Fifty-six-year-old Tahsin Uysal used to worked as a teacher in the southern Turkish city of Adana. He's one of tens of thousands of civil...