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news about "Human Rights"

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 perpetrators come to a Kurtuluş (Salvation) Church in Ankara, ask for the pastor and leave after throwing threats. The association ...»

In a TV show during the Northern Iraq military operation, the famous singer Ersoy demanded “solution instead of death” and Bakırköy ...»

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

The president Gül ratifies the revised 301, which now forbids denigrating the Turkish Nation rather than Turkishness. The permission to open ...»

The Initiative Against Thought Crime restarts its activities as a reaction to the increased number of law suits targeting people who ...»

The court accuses the family of Baran Tursun, who was shot by a police office for not stopping his car, for ...»

The Supreme Court of Appeals confirms the acquittal of Prof. Dr. Kaboğlu and Prof. Dr. Oran, who were on trial for ...»

Islamist-feminist Hidayet Tuksal bursts against AKP spokesperson Firat's statement that "AKP women would not be slaves to the feminist ideology". Feminist ...»

Dengir Mir Fırat of AKP claimed that the feminist thinking creates a medium of clash between man and woman. He addressed ...»

DISK president Çelebi tells that they will take the May Day prohibitions and the police violence, what they call “state terror”, ...»

Unions ended the May Day activity in Şişli following the excessive violence by the police forces. DİSK president Çelebi said that ...»

The Turkish Parliament passes the revised 301 with the new expressions of “Turkish Nation” and “the State of the Turkish Republic” ...»

Trade unions from DİSK, KESK and TÜRK-İŞ confederations, professional organizations and political formations will meet in Şişli and march to Taksim. ...»

The DISK lawyer Okcan indicates that the court rulings disprove the governor Güler. “Taksim is open to the soccer celebrations, police ...»

PM Erdoğan says yes to a May Day press statement and a wreath-laying ceremony in Istanbul's central Taksim Square, but no ...»

Far right nationalists storm a Kurdish Festival. Police could not disperse the crowd. One dies. DTP deputy accuses the authorities. ...»

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

“What happened on April 24, 1915?”. Ara Sarafian of the Gomidas Institute, debates with Turkish colleagues Keskin, Aydın and Zarakolu. It's ...»

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