Turkey's voters can only be empowered if they are better-informed
Global Voices, March 23, 2024, by Sinan Ciddi
Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped...
Yesterday (March 17), LGBTI+ individuals seeking to join Newroz festivities in Istanbul and İzmir, displaying LGBTI+ flags, were subjected to attacks by groups purporting...
Earthquake survivor siblings were expelled from their dormitory on allegations of “homosexuals”, sahibinden.com removes LGBTI+ ad, Erbakan and New Welfare Party are back on...
European Parliament resolution adopted in Strasbourg on 5th May 2022
On the case of Osman Kavala in Turkey (2022/2656(RSP))
The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous...
"Rights groups are calling for Osman Kavala's immediate release, while Ankara calls the Council of Europe’s decision to start the lengthy process “malicious” and...
"Turkish minister claims Greek border guards pushed back people whose bodies were ‘stripped of shoes and clothes’" says Helena Smith in The Guardian.
The bodies...
« Deniz Yücel avait été « maintenu en détention provisoire en l’absence de raisons plausibles de le soupçonner d’avoir commis une infraction pénale », a fait savoir...
"Le Conseil de l'Europe a annoncé vendredi 3 décembre avoir entamé une procédure en vue d'éventuelles sanctions contre la Turquie, qui a maintenu en...
"Le sort du mécène et philanthrope turc, emprisonné sans jugement depuis quatre ans, inquiète les diplomates et le Conseil de l’Europe" dit Delphine Minoui...
“Campaigners claim Ankara is abusing its position as host, by pressuring the police body to harass dissidents living abroad” reports Kim Willsher in Guardian....
"Alongside shelling and drones, Turkey is weaponizing water supplies in northeast Syria, turning an already horrible situation into a nightmare" reports Amberin Zaman on...
"HDP’s women’s branch said that the sentence is part of “an attack for vengeance”," reports Ahval.
Başak Demirtaş, a teacher who is married to jailed Kurdish...
"Pour les observateurs, il s'agissait surtout avec ce mouvement d'humeur de «faire diversion», la Turquie étant en proie à une crise économique, avec un taux...
"With twenty months left until Turkey’s legislative and presidential elections, the political debate will be fierce. The West may choose to sit it out...
Guillaume Perrier poursuit son enquête au sujet de l'activité des services turcs à l'étranger et élargit le contexte de son entretien avec un repenti...
The recent decisions of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş demonstrate that the committee no...
Civic groups and legal experts say reports of abduction and forced disappearances of opposition party members are on the rise, explains Sibel Hurtaş in...
In his first interview since he was released from prison, Turkish writer Ahmet Altan has told people to speak up and not be afraid. "You can't make fear so ordinary. Fear is so ordinary now, and I don't think it's something we can accept so easily…I went to prison, I came out, and I can go back again," he said.
Al-Monitor, July 22, 2021
The White House has maintained the previous administration's demands that Ankara dispose of the Russian missile defense system.
The Biden administration won’t...
Al-Monitor, July 22, 2021, Adam Lucente
Democratic and Republican senators voiced heavy criticism of the Turkish government to a State Department official during a Wednesday...
Bianet, May 31, 2021
Granted in Germany since 2007, this year's "Clara Zetkin Honorary Award" has been offered to Gültan Kışanak, the arrested former Metropolitan...
CEFTUS Youtube Channel, May 3, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2lHov7uf0
CEFTUS is an independent and non-partisan organisation based in London. mission is to build bridges between the UK...
Bianet, March 26, 2021
Following the video conference on March 25, 2021, the members of the European Council have adopted a statement calling on Turkey...
Reuters, Mars 8, 2021, Ali Küçükgöçmen
After more than three years in jail without a conviction, one of Turkey’s highest-profile detainees, Osman Kavala, is “not...
