Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 19 September Report
Category: Turkey
HRFT Human Rights Report- 18 Sept.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 18 September Report
Press freedom in Turkey in crisis, international press groups
A delegation of several international press freedom groups was in Turkey to evaluate the state of press freedom and the rule of law in Turkey, which they found “remains in crisis”.
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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 17 September Report
Almost a million more people unemployed in one year
The unemployment rate in Turkey stood at 13% in June, the Turkish Statistical Institute said on Monday. The figure was 2.8 percentage point up from the same month last year.
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Kurdish political prisoner dies in prison
Mustafa Akyol, former co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) was jailed in Ağrı in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “membership to an illegal organization”.
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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 14-16 September Report
Statement of Demirtaş’s lawyers on ECHR hearing
HDP former co-chair Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş’s lawyers have held a press conference today regarding the September 18 hearing at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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