Tag: Freedom of Expression

The Europe Peace Foundation (EPF) has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian government for the arbitrary arrest and execution ...

Prominent Turkish journalist Fatih Altaylı was detained in İstanbul on Saturday following a YouTube broadcast in which he sharply criticised ...

Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who spent more than three decades in prison in Turkey, has been named the recipient ...

A new political era in Turkey must be built on local democracy, equality and a legally grounded social contract*, pro-Kurdish ...

Eren Keskin, a prominent human rights lawyer and defender, reflects on the current moment of political transition in Turkey in ...

Prominent political commentator Mümtaz’er Türköne has argued that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) laying down its arms marks the beginning ...

A Turkish lawyer was arrested in İstanbul on Saturday for distributing hard copies of restricted social media posts of the ...

On the morning of 10 April, journalists Timur Soykan of BirGün and Murat Ağırel of Cumhuriyet were arrested following early ...

The 'Turkey-Germany Sister Cities Summit', hosted by the Union of Turkish Municipalities (TBB) in İstanbul, officially opened today, 8 April, ...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filled Istanbul’s Maltepe district on Saturday in the largest protest to date against the arrest ...