The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute and The Arrested Lawyers Initiative have released a detailed report highlighting the declining independence of the legal profession and bar associations in Turkey. The report underscores the targeting of law professionals through unfair trials, arbitrary detainment, imprisonment and harassment, as well as the alarming misuse of counter-terrorism legislation to prosecute lawyers in the course of their legitimate work.
GRECO finds Turkey failed to align with the Council of Europe’s anti-judicial and political corruption standards
The European Parliament adopted its annual Turkey report which found the state of democracy, rights and freedoms is deplorable and condemned systemic rights violations.
There has been an alarming increase in cases of torture and a continuing policy of impunity, according to the new report of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
Italian Federation for Human Rights today published a new report on the misuse of the anti-terrorism framework by Turkish authorities.
Abgeordnete des Europäischen Parlaments, Rechtsanwälte, Menschenrechtsaktivisten, Wissenschaftler und Nichtregierungsorganisationen forderten INTERPOL auf, die Türkei von der Nutzung der SLTD-Datenbank auszuschließen.