Why Journalists Don’t Feel Safe in Turkey
‘The report by the MLSA found that only 18, or 39.1 %, of journalists who stated they had been subjected to violence filed a complaint,...
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No Reset in Turkey’s Repression at Home
‘The Turkish government is unlikely to ease up on its domestic repression. Since President Erdoğan’s reelection, crackdowns on civil...
Turkey’s Rights Violations Cast a Shadow on the Council of Europe
Possible sanctions include deprivation of voting rights in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), suspension of its...
Torture and Impunity: Turkey a Test Case in the Limits of Human Rights Law
‘The international naming and shaming of the Turkish government reached its limits. What is left is a vibrant but vulnerable domestic...
How Turkey’s Election Could Push the U.S. Toward Authoritarianism
It’s human to see things through a binary prism: left versus right, drama versus comedy, democracy versus autocracy. But we can...
May 14 Elections: It’s the Female Voters, Stupid!
Women have a lot to lose if the AKP remains in power. The party has taken a number of controversial stances against gender equality in...
Yavuz Baydar on the Fight for an Independent Media
Yavuz Baydar has been working as a journalist for over 40 years, and most of that time he has spent defending Turkish journalism. He was...