From a geostrategic point of view, the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia that caused the death of more than 4 000 people…
Most foreign or even Turkish analysts present President Recep Tayyib Erdoğan’s Turkey as isolated from the international community and friendless (for instance, e.g.…
Nurcan Baysal is award-winning Kurdish author, well known journalist, human rights defender and columnist.
In 2018 she was named Global Laureate for…
Part 2.
What about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)? You wrote a critical text about its President and his recent visit…
By Eleni Constantinides
Over the past decade we have become witnesses of a despicable type of speech full of hatred and aggression coming…
On 13 September 2020, with the retreat of Oruç Reis, a Turkish research vessel which carried out drilling surveys in the East Mediterranean Sea…
The list of Turkish actions in its neighbourhood that have caused antipathy amongst others in that neighbourhood, and beyond, is long. Egypt, Syria,…
Bill Park, Visiting
Research fellow, King’s College, London
Turkey has been far from alone in involving itself in what has turned into a largely…
Robert Spano, new president of the European Court of Human Rights gave an online interview to Mikael Rask Madsen. The interview is followed…
In this article, I am referring to Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey’s, not the country of Turkey independent from Erdoğan’s authoritarian
grip. There is another Turkey…
16 international NGOs urged Turkish Government not to discriminate against political prisoners in its forthcoming early parole bill.
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative, European…
On 2 January 2020
Turkey’s parliament gave a green light to the Turkish government’s proposed
military assistance to the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord
(GNA),…
Täglich kommen immer mehr Details über die Umerziehungslager aus der Provinz Chinas Xinjiang ans Tageslicht. Während die Regierung die Menschenrechtsverletzungen an den Uighuren…
After month of preparation and repeated threats, on the 9th of October the Turkish military and its so-called Syrian National Army (SNA) allies,…
Platform for Peace and
Justice met with journalist Mesale Tolu to discuss her recent book ‘My son will
stay with me!’ (Rowohlt Verlag). Tolu was…
Last month, the European Union threatened Turkey with targeted
sanctions in light of “illegal drilling” taking place in Cypriot waters. This
somewhat strict and standoffish…
“For the lifting of Turkey’s two-year state of emergency to have been anything more than a cosmetic exercise, it needed to be accompanied…