Ongoing judicial harassment against lawyers in Turkey, jeopardizing their independence

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH/OMCT) Human Rights Association (IHD) International Association of…

TURKEY: Confirmed Pre-trial Detention for Human Rights Defender Osman Işçi and 27 trade union members

  29 June 2012   The undersigned organisations express their deepest concern regarding the decision of…

TURKEY: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER OSMAN IŞÇI MUST BE IMMEDIATELY RELEASED

Copenhagen, Paris, Geneva, 26 June 2012 The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Observatory for…

Report on the Massacre of Roboski – 03 January 2012

Report on the Massacre of the Villagers of Gülyazı (Bujeh) and Ortasu (Roboski) Villages of Uludere…

Joint Public Statement of HRFT and IHD on 10 December 2011

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by…

RAGIP ZARAKOLU AND BÜŞRA ERSANLI WERE ARRESTED

Today (on 1 November 2011) Ragıp Zarakolu, the Human Rights Association’s Honour Board Member and Büşra…

URGENT CALL FOR ACTION: DETENTION AND PROBABLE ARREST OF MEHMET TANHAN

Mr. Mehmet Tanhan, the former Mayor of Nusaybin District of Mardin Province for ten years between…

Turkish Prime Minister to visit Hatay Syrian Refugee Camps: EMHRN calls for better international protection

The Euromediteranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) calls on Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan to seize the opportunity…

We condemn the violence inflicted on juveniles

After the public statement police teams attempted to detain juveniles on the grounds that they threw…

URGENT CALL FOR ACTION: AGAINST THE TORTURE INCIDENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN NORTHERN CYPRUS

Soldier Uğur Kantar had been sentenced to seven days in the “discipline dormitory” known as “disco”…