New head of the Land Forces Gen. Işık Koşaner chooses security over freedoms. The Human Right Defenders ask “which laws prevent ...

The head of Human Rights Foundation of Turkey evaluates the recent Ergenekon investigation and concludes that there is no reason to ...

The Human Rights Investigation Committee may look into conscientious objector Bal’s ordeal, either when petitioned by the victim or informed about ...

The Constitutional Court revokes the headscarf amendment by the ruling party with a vote of nine to two. While the opposition ...

A conversation about smoking turns into an article 301 investigation. A slogan using Bush is construed as denigrating the heads of ...

Seven human rights organizations start a campaign for the removal of article 318, “the alienation of people from military service”. Close ...

KEİG claims that the new employment law does not address the real issues that will change situation radically in women’s employment ...

The European Parliament passes a report on Turkey. Although pleased with the imperfect 301 revision, it insists that major changes such ...

The Human Rights Presidency, a government body, declares that its committees will inspect the police and gendarmerie detention centers unannounced and ...

The AKP members of the Human Rights Committee reject the proposal to form a subcommittee for the investigation of the May ...

Turkey’s Journalists Association condemned the discriminatory words of the Bugün columnist Nuh Gönültaş, who said, in addition to many other remarks, ...

A school principle beats up 12 students for not cleaning the school garden by hitting their hands with a big pair ...

In the sixth hearing of the murder trial in Malatya yesterday, Cuma Özdemir, Abuzer Yıldırım and Salih Gürler blamed Emre Günaydın ...

None of the suspects confess to the Malatya murders of the three Protestans. The court completes the interrogation of the arrested ...

Families of the high school children who were tortured in the police station turn to the Association of Human Rights. They ...

The conscientious objector Savda, still in prison, is declared exempt from military service to prevent the discussion of conscientious objection. Savda ...

In the next hearing on July 7 Dink's murder suspect O.S. will be 18 and the trial open to the press. ...

After reading a press statement for the Solidarity Initiative for Ismail Saygi, conscientious objector Savda was himself taken into custody. The ...

The US Department of State released its 2007 report on Turkey on 11 March. The report criticises the fact that there ...

According to Amnesty International, there has been a regression in human rights in 2007. Torture and maltreatment continue, and trials are ...