On 2 February 2021, Twitter took the still relatively unusual step of flagging a politician’s tweets for “hateful conduct”, the same thing it did to tweets from former US president Donald Trump before his ban.
At this juncture in time, Turkey has been transformed into a country where demonization, accusation, pointing as a target, repressing of different segments of the society by means of judicial oppression is actually unexceptional.
We are here to stand in solidarity with our dear friend Lawyer Öztürk Türkdoğan who has been the co-chair of Human Rights Association (HRA/İHD) for 15 years and has dedicated more than 35 years of his life to addressing Turkey’s fundamental human rights problems and helping the victims of human rights violations.
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Turkey will not respect the Council of Europe if it does not respect Turkish courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Feb. 3, when asked about a decision to refer the case against philanthropist Osman Kavala back to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) .
The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers has taken a further step to launching sanctions against Turkey for not releasing philanthropist Osman Kavala. It has asked the ECHR to reexamine the case.
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A European human rights watchdog will refer the Turkish case against philanthropist Osman Kavala back to a top European court, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding that the move amounted to interfering in its judiciary.
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In a statement it released on Jan. 20, the Human Rights Association (İHD) said that prosecutors had filed three lawsuits against its president Öztürk Türkdoğan and the association itself.
“For the first time since the 1990s, the İHD is facing severe judicial issues,” former İHD chairman Hüsnü Öndül declared.
A Turkish court ruled on Friday to release two students from jail in the first hearing of a broader case over campus protests against the government's appointment of a rector at Istanbul's Bogazici University.
The protests at the prestigious Bogazici began one year ago after President Tayyip Erdogan appointed as rector Melih Bulu, an academic and former political candidate. He was later replaced by Naci Inci, one of his deputies, in August.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has targeted the country's LGBTI community once again, claiming that their associations are being funded from abroad. Soylu made the comments as he addressed neighborhood heads (“muhtar”) during a meeting in the western province of Bursa on Dec. 28.