Hey @RT_Erdogan, remember 1998? We do. We demanded your release back then & demand you free our Turkey Director NOW: https://t.co/mKGfENCKRq pic.twitter.com/lmDSWBaSnD
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) 7 Temmuz 2017
Yesterday morning, police arrested eight human rights defenders and two trainers who were attending a workshop in Istanbul. For over 24 hours, they weren’t allowed to contact their families or see a lawyer – and no one even knew where they were
Six of the human rights defenders who were detained on July 5, 2017. Images shared widely on Twitter under the hashtag #İnsanHaklarıSavunucularınaDokunma.
G20 leaders must demand that President Erdoğan release the Istanbul 10
An attempted coup on 15 July 2016 prompted a massive government crackdown on civil servants and civil society. Those accused of links to the Fethullah Gülen movement were the main target. Over 40,000 people were remanded in pre-trial detention
Responding to the news that Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International Turkey, was detained on Wednesday along with seven other human rights defenders and two trainers during a digital security and information management workshop in
Eric S. Edelman is a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Merve Tahiroglu is a research associate at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Rumors are swirling in Washington about a
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