For the fourth Universal Periodic Review of Turkey by the UN Human Rights Council, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative contributed six submissions highlighting the human rights situation in Turkey.
Factsheets and Submissions
New Third Party Intervention by FIDU to an important ECHR case against Turkey
Prominent Italian human rights NGO, the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) has submitted a third-party intervention in the case of Nazım Altıntaş v. Türkiye before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
TALI makes two submissions to the UN Human Rights Committee
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative (TALI) is pleased to announce two recent submissions to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC), prepared in collaboration with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). These submissions were made as part of the… Read More ›
Third Party Intervention by FIDU on the abusive use of Turkish anti-terror provision
FIDU – Italian Federation for Human Rights / Italian Helsinki Committee pursuant to the permission given by the European Court of Human Rights prepared a legal expert opinion on the abusive and unforeseeable use of anti-terror provision, namely Art. 314 of… Read More ›
Abuse of the Anti-Terrorism Provision by Turkey is steadily increasing (2013-2020)
Official statistics highlight that Turkish public prosecutors have filed more than 420,000 charges under Article 314 of the Turkish Penal Code within the last eight-years. What is worse, between 2016 and 2020 more than 265,000 individuals have been sentenced for membership of an armed terrorist organisation.
According to a report of the Council of Europe, Turkey has the largest population of inmates convicted for terrorism-related offences. The report shows there are currently a total of 30524 inmates in COE member states who were sentenced for terrorism, and Of those 29827 are in Turkish prisons.
TALI/TUHRAP makes its first submission to UK Foreign Office
Turkey Human Rights Accountability Projects makes its first submission to UK Foreign Office to have notable abusers of human rights in Turkey placed on the United Kingdom’s sanction list.