Reporters without Borders 1
Aug 25, 2017
Journalists in new wave of arrests in Turkey
The Turkish police carried out a new wave of arrests this morning under a combined warrant issued today for 35 journalists and media...
Genocide Watch
Aug 4, 2017
'It's memorycide': Turkey dismantles monuments to Kurdish culture
Turkish police officers stand guard in front of court house in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on 30 October 2016 (AFP) Just a few short...
Reporters without Borders 1
Aug 3, 2017
RSF urges Turkey to free French freelancer held on terrorism charge
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of French freelance reporter Loup Bureau, who is the latest journalist to...
International Crisis Group 1
Jul 20, 2017
Turkey’s PKK Conflict Kills almost 3,000 in Two Years
On 20 July 2015, an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomb attack killed 33 and injured more than 100 mostly pro-Kurdish young activists in...
BBC News
Jun 25, 2017
Turkey LGBT: Police stifle Istanbul Gay Pride rally
Police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have thwarted attempts by organisers to hold a banned Gay Pride march. The organisers of the...
Newsweek
Jun 21, 2017
Iran and Turkey, at war with Syria
Two traditional foes, Turkey and Iran, have found themselves on the same side of a bitter regional dispute between Saudi Arabia and...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jun 16, 2017
17 journalists to be tried in Istanbul for “complicity” in coup attempt
The trial of 17 Turkish journalists accused of complicity in a coup attempt in July 2016 will open in Istanbul on 19 June. Six of them,...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jun 16, 2017
25 years for leaking video to Turkish newspaper
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the 25-year jail term that an opposition parliamentarian has received for leaking a highly...
Reporters without Borders 1
May 24, 2017
Concern over detained French photographer now on hunger strike
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about Mathias Depardon, a French photographer held for the past two weeks in...
Reporters without Borders 1
May 22, 2017
First jail sentence in Kurdish newspaper solidarity trials
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to see that the Turkish authorities are stepping up their persecution of those who took part...
International Crisis Group 1
May 2, 2017
Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin
Executive Summary Nusaybin, a political stronghold of the Kurdish movement bordering Syria, is among Turkey’s urban south-eastern...
Washington Post
Apr 26, 2017
Turkey deports foreigners working with Syrian refugees
The Turkish government this week deported foreigners working with Syrian refugees at a leading U.S.-based aid organization, part of what...
