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EFD Rights Watch: “Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site…..Number of Women on Police Protection Skyrockets in Turkey…
Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site Security at the site of the deadly terrorist attack in Reyhanlı remained lax hours after the event, while officials confess to incompetence and... Read more
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Document: Center for American Progress’ report on “Freedom of the Press and Expression in Turkey
The issues of press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey have for several years attracted a great deal of attention and provoked extensive debate both in Turkey and in... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Excessive Pepper Gas usage… RedHack not a ‘terrorist group,’ prosecutors rule…
Police, Beşiktaş fans clash before last game and victory in historic Istanbul stadium Fans of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş football team and police clashed only hours before the last gameat the to-be-demolished... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Child Workers Near 900,000 in Turkey
Child Workers Near 900,000 in Turkey from Bianet :: English According to a recent report released by Turkey’s main statistics institute, there are currently 893,000 child workers with half of... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Doubtful Uludere massacre report… Peaceful Newroz celebrations this year…
Doubts about report on Uludere massacre from Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL – A commission in the Turkish parliament has finalized its... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: the PM forcing the journalist to reveal sources.. Unsatisfying Uludere Massacre report… In the last 16 years 366 women abused in custody…
Reveal İmralı leak sources or we might: Turkish PM Erdoğan from Hurriyet Daily News Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged the media to reveal its sources. Turkish PM... Read more
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The Peace Process in Turkey goes like this: PM criticizes media/threatenes media freedom, slams opposition leaders, Opposition insults back and labels him as traitor…
MEMO FROM DIYARBAKIR; Turkey Renews Focus on Ending Its Long Conflict With Kurds from NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO; Sebnem Arsu contributed reporting from Diyarbakir, and Ceylan Yeginsu... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Turkish Army denies claims of German troops’ mistreatment…mistreatment is for locals… Website Campaigns For Turkey’s Foreign Inmates..
Turkish Army denies claims of German troops’ mistreatment from Hurriyet Daily News The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has denied claims that German troops sent to operate Psychiatrist Reacts Ministry’s Sex... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Hate Speech in Turkey’s Media… Missing Shepherds Case…Conscientious Objector Jailed…
Report Reveals Hate Speech in Turkey’s Media from Bianet :: English A recent report released by Hrant Dink Foundation revealed hate speech practises in Turkey’s media which mostly targeted Jewish... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Al Jazeera declares Turkey as the ‘World’s biggest prison’ for media… BDP’s Black Sea Campaign stopped due to security reasons…
Turkey: ‘World’s biggest prison’ for media from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Reporter rights groups accuse Ankara of jailing more journalists than any other country in the world last year.... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “An informant offers to cooperate in the Dink murder probe:
An informant offers to cooperate in the Dink murder probe: report from Hurriyet Daily News The Istanbul prosecutor investigating the murder of Hrant Dink received a letter Feb. 13... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “Turkey to Implement New Judicial Reforms…
Turkey to Implement New Judicial Reforms from Bianet :: English ntvmsnbc said Turkish government is soon to conclude its efforts to draft new judicial reforms, publicly known as 4th Judicial... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “Turkey on 154th in press index, Maalouf’s Samarkand new target, Turkey Found Guilty in a Kurdish case…
Turkey on 154th in press index from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey slipped a further six places, dropping to 154th of 179 countries… Maalouf’s ‘Samarkand’ investigated by Turkish education board from... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: The collapse of Turkish Judiciary: Trial of Pınar Selek…
Pınar Selek Issused a Life Sentence after 15 Year Trial from Global Voices Online by Baran Mavzer Pınar Selek, a Strasbourg-based sociologist and a writer, previously accused of bombing the... Read more
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Ergenekon trial today. Gendarmerie fires pepper gas… a Human rights roundup.. .
by @DikerMert FACTBOX-Turkey’s “Ergenekon” case draws to a close Reuters AlertNet The Ergenekon network was said to have been linked to the “Deep State”, militant secularists in key areas of Turkish life.... Read more
