At the request of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, a lawsuit was filed against those detained during the Pride Parade held at Boğaziçi University on May 20.
Police attacked the Pride March organized by the Boğaziçi University LGBTI+ Studies Club (BÜLGBTİA+), which was shut down by the trustee-rector last year.
Osman Kavala, sentenced to life imprisonment in Turkey, remains true to his humanism. In his absence he has now received the ifa prize.
UN experts* today called on Türkiye to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders and immediately release recently detained Sebnem Korur Fincancı, a recognised forensic medical practitioner and anti-torture expert.
Nebahat Akkoc says her life began afresh after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2000 that she had suffered torture while in Turkish custody, emboldening her and others to carry on their fight for women's rights.
Turkey’s interior minister Süleyman Soylu has described LGBTQ+ rights as “terrorist propaganda” in a hateful speech.
The Center for Victims of Torture is accepting applications from human rights defenders (HRDs) living in exile or internally displaced to participate in a global, dynamic and collaborative capacity development project. The Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements (IDREAM) project will provide training and networking activities with the goals of: advancing advocacy efforts, promoting exiled HRD’s psychosocial resilience and well-being, and improving HRD’s physical and digital security.
Türkiye’s failure to release human rights defender Osman Kavala from prison may have far reaching consequences for all those seeking justice in the country, a UN expert warned today.
“This month marks five years since Osman Kavala was arrested and Türkiye has now twice ignored binding rulings of the highest human rights court in Europe for his release,” said Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.
“Türkiye’s continued disregard for the court’s decision is a dangerous attack on the regional human rights mechanism,” she said.
The World Medical Association has issued a strong condemnation about the arrest in Turkey of Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, President of the Turkish Medical Association.
She was detained today in Istanbul after claims that she made comments about the use of poisonous gas against Kurds in Iraq.
Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, Chair of the WMA Council, said today: ‘It is totally unacceptable that Dr. Korur Fincancı has been detained and that members of the Turkish Medical Association are being threatened with suspension.