Call for Investigation: Brutal Stabbing Attack on Businessman Hazim Sesli at Menemen Penitentiary

Call for Investigation: Brutal Stabbing Attack on Businessman Hazim Sesli at Menemen Penitentiary

PDF Link Brutal Stabbing Attack on Businessman Hazim Sesli at Menemen Penitentiary Advocates of Silenced Turkey ur...
Release Abdullah Aydoğan: The 74-Year-Old Political Prisoner

Release Abdullah Aydoğan: The 74-Year-Old Political Prisoner

AST has written an official complaint letter to be shared with relevant United Nations institutions. Please join us ...
Send a Letter: Torture Allegations

Send a Letter: Torture Allegations

Urge Turkish authorities to investigate and stop the torture of 18 ex-Intelligence employees in Ankara at the counter-t...
Send a Letter: Senators and Law Enforcement About Threats Against Turkish Citizens

Send a Letter: Senators and Law Enforcement About Threats Against Turkish Citizens

PDF LINK DOC LINK   Re: Calling every dissident abroad as a terrorist, Erdogan vows to kill “terrorist...
Free Merve Gökkaya Before Permanently Losing Her Health

Free Merve Gökkaya Before Permanently Losing Her Health

CALL TO STOP PERSECUTION UNDER LEGAL PRACTICE. FREE MERVE GOKKAYA BEFORE PERMANENTLY LOSING HER HEALTH According ...
Send a Letter: Stop Torturing Diplomats

Send a Letter: Stop Torturing Diplomats

SEND A LETTER: STOP TORTURING DIPLOMATS Send a letter to Congressman Hastings, the chair of Helsinki Commission or Hon...
Send a Letter: Grave Human Rights Violations in Turkey

Send a Letter: Grave Human Rights Violations in Turkey

AST STATEMENT REGARDING GRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKEY ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, DECEMBER 10 Under the state...
Send a Letter: Confiscated Businesses

Send a Letter: Confiscated Businesses

PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER THREAT IN TURKEY Property rights in Turkey are unfortunately no longer protected. Since 2015 an...
After Yearlong Struggle, Turkey’s Crackdown Reaches Afghan Schools

After Yearlong Struggle, Turkey’s Crackdown Reaches Afghan Schools

Turkey’s global purge and the crackdown on Gulen-affiliated schools never show signs of abating. The latest attempt took...
Send a Letter | Purged Public Workers

Send a Letter | Purged Public Workers

PURGED BEYOND RETURNS SEND A LETTER to COUNCIL OF EUROPE, VENICE COMMISSION & MEMBER OF CABINET “On the evenin...
Warning Against Senior Turkish Aide’s Abduction Threats in US

Warning Against Senior Turkish Aide’s Abduction Threats in US

On September 25, 2018 Erdogan’s Long Arms Aiming to Reach US Territory Turkey Seeks to Target Erdogan Opponents on US...
Urgent Action About Detainments of Six Turkish Educationists in Moldova

Urgent Action About Detainments of Six Turkish Educationists in Moldova

On September 6, 2018 six Turkish nationals in Moldova were detained. SIS agents of Moldova conducted the detainment of V...
Afghan security forces raided Afghan-Turk High School at the request of Turkish government

Afghan security forces raided Afghan-Turk High School at the request of Turkish government

Afghan-Turk Boys High School in Shibirghan was raided by members of the Afghan security forces under the command of Uzbe...
Turkey’s MIT abducted Veysel Akçay in Mongolia

Turkey’s MIT abducted Veysel Akçay in Mongolia

Veysel Akçay, the General Director of the schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia who has lived in Mongol...
Turkish family missing in Evros river after trying to escape from Erdogan’s persecution

Turkish family missing in Evros river after trying to escape from Erdogan’s persecution

Victims of Erdogan’s regime are increasing every day, as there has not been an effective mechanism to prevent him. In Tu...
Torture and Suspicious Deaths in Turkish Prisons

Torture and Suspicious Deaths in Turkish Prisons

On July 1st, 2018, Zeki Güven, the former intelligence chief of the Ankara Police Department who was arrested by a Turki...
UN Working Group urges AKP govt to release Kaçmaz Family immediately and unconditionally

UN Working Group urges AKP govt to release Kaçmaz Family immediately and unconditionally

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Human Rights Council has called on the Turkish government to immediat...
Seriously ill educator still held in Manisa prison for 22 months

Seriously ill educator still held in Manisa prison for 22 months

Isa Kara, 54-year-old, has worked 34 years as a teacher and director of Ministry of National Education’s Manisa provinci...
Mustafa Ceyhan Abducted in Front of the Courthouse

Mustafa Ceyhan Abducted in Front of the Courthouse

Mustafa Ceyhan is a businessman from Turkey who resides in Georgia with his family under UN protection. He visited Azerb...
AST Statement on Torture Allegations in Turkey, Konya

AST Statement on Torture Allegations in Turkey, Konya

For the last two years, starting from the false flag coup attempt on July 15, 2016, almost entire democratic and fundeme...
Turkish Teachers in Afghanistan

Turkish Teachers in Afghanistan

The National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghan intelligence agency, abducted four teachers including one Afghan and ...
Turkish Nationals Detained in Kosovo and Face Possible Extradition to Turkey

Turkish Nationals Detained in Kosovo and Face Possible Extradition to Turkey

Kosovan online media has been reporting that six Turkish nationals who have legal residence and/or working permit in the...
Women and Children in Prison

Women and Children in Prison

As you are aware, recent reports from the Journalist and Writers Foundation in Turkey and the Stockholm Center for Freed...
UN expert says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations in Turkey

UN expert says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations in Turkey

GENEVA (27 February 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, expressed serious concerns about the risi...
At Least 3 Victims Drowned While Trying to Cross Meriç/Evros River

At Least 3 Victims Drowned While Trying to Cross Meriç/Evros River

Victims of Erdogan’s regime are increasing every day, as there has not been an effective mechanism to prevent him. On Fe...
Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay should be immediately released

Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay should be immediately released

Amnesty International Orange County: On January 11, 2018, Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled in a criminal case tha...
It is high time for the European Court of Human Rights to step in!

It is high time for the European Court of Human Rights to step in!

Turkey witnessed a coup attempt on 15 July 2016. The 3-month State of the Emergency regime which was declared immediatel...
Statutory Decree No. 696

Statutory Decree No. 696

After the July 15th failed-coup attempt, the Turkish state has engaged in many illegal activities. The Erdogan regime pa...
Protecting Erdogan Dissidents in the U.S

Protecting Erdogan Dissidents in the U.S

Advocates of Silenced Turkey urges The U.S. authorities to take necessary precautions to protect Erdogan dissidents in t...
Statutory Decree No. 696 and the Demise of Rule of Law

Statutory Decree No. 696 and the Demise of Rule of Law

Since the July 15 alleged coup attempt, which President Erdogan defined as a blessing from God, Turkish democracy and ju...
Afghanistan’s Intelligence Agency Released Four Teachers of Afghan-Turk School

Afghanistan’s Intelligence Agency Released Four Teachers of Afghan-Turk School

NDS Releases Four Teachers of Afghan-Turk School “Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has released four teachers of Afgha...
Statement on Missing Teachers in Afghanistan

Statement on Missing Teachers in Afghanistan

The National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghan intelligence agency, abducted four teachers including one Afghan and ...
Statement on Human Rights Day

Statement on Human Rights Day

As Advocates of Silenced Turkey, we are pleased to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day. Yet, unfortunatel...