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July 8, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Plan to Divide, Undermine Legal Profession

Draft Law Reduces Leading Bar Associations’ Authority, Leads to Creation of Rival Groups

Chairs of Turkey’s provincial bar associations stage a sit-in demonstration after police blocked the group from marching to Ankara to protest a new draft law. The new law is set to divide the legal profession along political lines and has been strongly opposed by bar associations. June 22, 2020. © AP Photo
July 7, 2020 Q & A

The Reform of Bar Associations in Turkey: Questions and Answers

Chairs of Turkey’s provincial bar associations stage a sit-in demonstration after police blocked the group from marching to Ankara to protest a new draft law. The new law is set to divide the legal profession along political lines and has been strongly opposed by bar associations. June 22, 2020. © AP Photo
July 6, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Politically Motivated Conviction of Activists

Verdict Aims to Stifle Human Rights Movement

Eleven human rights defenders were prosecuted in the Büyükada case, named after the island in Istanbul where ten were detained at a human rights education workshop in July 2017.
June 10, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Probes Over Doctors’ Covid-19 Comments

Investigations into Medical Chamber Leaders Undermine Pandemic Response

A team of doctors puts on protective suits before they meet a patient with suspected COVID-19, Istanbul May 2020. © 2020 Yasin Akgu/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
June 2, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Free Rights Defender Following European Court Ruling

Council of Europe Ministers Should Urge Osman Kavala’s Release

Osman Kavala
May 1, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Criminal Case for Opposing Homophobic Speech

End Stigmatization of LGBT People, Investigation of Bar Associations

Hundreds of people gathered for the campus Pride March at Middle East Technical University on May 11, 2018.
April 29, 2020 Report

Turkey: Enforced Disappearances, Torture

Investigate Disappearances; End Threats to Detainee and His Family

Wives of six men who went missing in February 2019 join the weekly Saturday Mothers vigil in Istanbul for families of disappeared people in Turkey, July 2019.
April 17, 2020 Statement

Twenty-Four Rights-Groups Call on Turkey to Release All Those Arbitrarily Detained, Now At Risk of Covid-19

April 13, 2020 Dispatches

Turkey Seeks Power to Control Social Media

New Draft Law Would Force Social Media Companies to Submit to Censorship

People check their phones at a market in central Istanbul, Turkey, July 18, 2019.
April 3, 2020 Interview

The Coronavirus in Europe: From Lockdowns to Power Grabs

COVID-19 in Europe, the Central Eurasian Region, and Turkey

Military police officers patrol at a market in Budapest, Hungary, March 31, 2020.
April 3, 2020 Report

Turkey: COVID-19 Puts Sick Prisoners at Grave Risk

Offer Most Vulnerable Inmates Alternatives to Prison

Thousands of political prisoners are held in the vast Silivri campus prison, Istanbul.
March 23, 2020 Dispatches

Turkey Should Protect All Prisoners from Pandemic

Early Release Program Should Seek to Lower Threat of Coronavirus for All Prisoners

Silivri Prison, Istanbul.
March 17, 2020 Report

Greece: Violence Against Asylum Seekers at Border

Detained, Assaulted, Stripped, Summarily Deported

An asylum seeker in northern Turkey at the Greek border on March 6 shows injuries he says Greek security forces inflicted after he had crossed the Evros River into Greece. Photo by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation/Handout/Anadolu Agency.
March 6, 2020 Interview

Interview: What’s Happening to Refugees in Greece

Migrants who arrived yesterday to Greece from Turkey eat bread as they try to warm themselves at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday, March 6, 2020.
March 6, 2020 Commentary

Gunshots, Summary Trials, Deportations

The Reality for Refugees in the EU-Turkey Stand-Off

Refugee being taken away by Greek police

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