Actuality

On January 25, 2022, Ankara Bar Association announced[1] new mass torture alert in Ankara’s anti-terror unit (Ankara TEM), and that they will investigate and publish a report, and file criminal complaint in line with the findings of the report. These recent torture allegations have been widely reported by various news […]

As one of the recent iconic cases of impunity in Turkey, lynch attempt on  outspoken fashion designer Barbaros Şansal[1], and the whole story with his legal struggle the entire timpe that now ends in the acquittal of the perpetrators… In the trial over the attempted lynch against Barbaros Şansal at […]

27 Aralık 2021 ( ozgurpolitika.com ) Eren KESKİN It’s December 28th. The anniversary of the Roboski Massacre. In Roboski, as we mentioned, 34 people were suddenly bombed to death. 19 of them were children, and their killers have not been found yet, and there is still no such hope… There […]

Doğan Özgüden, Artı Gerçek, January 2, 2002 I write this article at the twilight of the morning, when, like all metropolises of the world, the European capital, Brussels, is in deep sleep after the New Year’s Eve celebration. There is no New Year’s Eve celebration that has left a mark […]

Friday, 17 December 2021 Just recently, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 ruled that Turkey had acted unlawfully by arresting more than 400 judges and prosecutors after a failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  Find the court decision here: TURAN AND OTHERS […]

On November 15, 2021, the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights met to debate, among others, the state of Turkey’s judicial system and respect for fundamental rights in law and in practice. Despite the Turkish government’s attempts at obstruction, the Subcommittee hosted Prof. Em. Dr. Johan Vande Lanotte, Belgian State […]