[OPINION] Turkish gov’t distorts facts reported by UN Special Rapporteur on torture Leighann Spencer 26/02/2018 Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, has published a report concerning the situation in Turkey with findings from his 27... Read More...
[OPINION] Turkish Gov’t Recasting Infamous “Midnight Express” Ugur Tok 12/02/2018 Oliver Stone’s Oscar winning movie – Midnight Express (1978) based on Bill Hayes’ 1977 non-fiction book, which showed the images of prison conditions and brutality in jails of Turkey in 1970s was... Read More...
[OPINION] Coup Botched, Torture Allowed in Turkey Ugur Tok 19/01/2018 In the aftermath of the controversial coup attempt on 15 July 2016, even without any proper investigation aiming at finding out the real perpetrators, a state of emergency (SoE) was declared by t... Read More...
[NEWS] UN Rapporteur exposes scale of torture in Turkey PPJ 18/01/2018 PPJ- 18 January, 2018 Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, has submitted a report which reveal horrific facts regarding the rig... Read More...
[NEWS] German Constitutional Court overturned deportation of radical militant to Turkey due to Torture PPJ 09/01/2018 The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany overturned a decision given by a court ordering the deportation of an individual convicted of supporting a “terrorist organization”. According to Reuters News Agenc... Read More...
[NEWS] 2 Decree Laws Issued Overnight Signal Grave Rights Abuses PPJ 24/12/2017 PPJ- 24 December 2017 2 Decree Laws issued by the government overnight enact crucial changes that will lead to grave rights violations. The Decree Laws include a list of 2756 public servants dismissed fr... Read More...
[OPINION] Torture in Turkey Under the State of Emergency MELIS TON 09/08/2017 By MELIS TON In all contemporary legal systems which are based on the rule of law and respect for human rights, the principle of "determination of criminals from the evidence" instead of "deter... Read More...
