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[NEWS] CSCE warns NGO participation in the OSCE meetings essential

20/12/2017

PPJ- 20 December 2017 The U.S. Helsinki Commission said, in a report on NGO Participation in the OSCE published on 19 December 2017, that some participating states effort to curtail NGO participation. ... Read More...

We are delighted to announce the launch of Brussels Talks at our platform.

PPJ

16/12/2017

We are delighted to announce the launch of Brussels Talks at our platform. Objectives of Brussels Talks are to bring you fresh interviews on up to date topics with prominent figures across Brussels mainly on... Read More...

[NEWS] TIHV Head Fincanci warns Turkey turns into fascism

PPJ

15/12/2017

PPJ- 15 December 2017 Sebnem Korur Fincanci, the head of Turkey Foundation of Human Rights (TIHV), stated that Nazi practices are being reinstated in Turkey by the government of Erdogan. She said "I see ... Read More...

Candar reads article in the EP “I am going to write this article but maybe you will not believe when you read”

PPJ

14/12/2017

The 14th international conference Kurdish Conference held on 6 and 7 December 2017 in the European Parliament in Brussels, focusing on the Kurdish question and democratic processes in Turkey with ... Read More...

[NEWS] 44 OSCE States expressed “deep regret” about deterioration in human rights and fundamenal freedoms

PPJ

12/12/2017

PPJ- 12 December 2017 In a joint statement on human rights and fundamental freedoms made at the 24th OSCE Ministerial Council held in Vienna on 7-8 December 2017, the 44 participating states expresse... Read More...

[NEWS] The Expert Council opinion questioning impartiality of the Turkish Constitutional Court

PPJ

04/12/2017

PPJ- Brussels, 4 December 2017 The Expert Council on NGO Law of the Council of Europe published an opinion on "The Impact of the State of Emergency on Freedom of Association in Turkey" on 30 Nov... Read More...

[NEWS] European Lawyers urge Erdogan to release hundreds of Turkish lawyers

PPJ

01/12/2017

Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 45 countries and more than 1 million European lawyers, wrote a letter to Turkey’s President Recep Tay... Read More...

[OPINION] Thousands of judges still in jail. 680 of them kept in solitary confinement

PPJ

28/11/2017

By MELIS TON Arrest warrants were issued for 2,745 judges and prosecutors just one day after the 15th of July controlled coup attempt, when even the names of the soldiers who took part in the attempt wer... Read More...

Family of Five Drowned in Aegean Sea as Trying to Flee From Illegal Persecution in TR.

PPJ

27/11/2017

A Turkish family of five allegedly drowned in Aegean Sea as they were trying to flee from the repression of the regime of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Greek island Lesvos. The source... Read More...

[NEWS] “ECHR is bargaining with Turkish judiciary prior to its verdicts” Kerem Altiparmak says

PPJ

24/11/2017

By PPJ Kerem Altiparmak, Turkey's prominent human rights defender and academic, said " European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) wants the domestic remedies to be extended in order to prevent the application... Read More...

[INTERVIEW] NBA Player Kanter: "They Cancelled My Passport to Get Me Deported to Turkey"

Korruption ist Erdogans schwache Stelle

Der Putsch war nichts als ein vergiftetes Geschenk an Erdogan zulasten der türkischen Gesellschaft

Das Engagement der Bundesregierung darf nicht mit dem Fall von Deniz Yücel enden

Beatriz Becerra: Turkey must act according to its commitments.

Hans-Olaf Henkel MEP: Merkel decision to let hundreds and thousands of refugees into Germany made the entire EU subject to Erdogan’s blackmail.

[INTERVIEW] MEP Fleckenstein: “For the time being, the relations with Turkey can’t be value-based”