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 urges all relevant institutions of the International Human Rights community to petition the…
RELEASE ABDULLAH AYDOGAN: The 74 Year Old Political Prisoner
AST has written an official complaint letter to be shared with relevant United Nations institutions. Please join us in sending a letter to Nils Melzer in order to urge the…
SEND A LETTER : TORTURE ALLEGATIONS
Urge Turkish authorities to investigate and stop the torture of 18 ex-Intelligence employees in Ankara at the counter-terrorism department on December 18th and bring perpetrators to justice. Dear…
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 “terrorists”(!) by justifying this attempt with a referral to the operation against Baghdadi…
FREE MERVE GOKKAYA BEFORE PERMANENTLY LOSING HER HEALTH
CALL TO STOP PERSECUTION UNDER LEGAL PRACTICE. FREE MERVE GOKKAYA BEFORE PERMANENTLY LOSING HER HEALTH According to Article 16/6 of the Turkish Penal Code No. 5275, patients who cannot…
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. CHRIS SMITH- NJ from Lantos Commission to urge them to take…
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 of emergency, imposed after the July 2016 attempted coup and lifted on…
SEND A LETTER: CONFISCATED BUSINESSES
PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER THREAT IN TURKEY Property rights in Turkey are unfortunately no longer protected. Since 2015 and mainly after the failed coup attempt in 2016, the Erdogan government is…
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 place in Afghanistan on Sunday, with all the hallmarks of previous ones…
SEND A LETTER | PURGED PUBLIC WORKERS
PURGED BEYOND RETURNS SEND A LETTER to COUNCIL OF EUROPE, VENICE COMMISSION & MEMBER OF CABINET “On the evening of 15 July 2016, elements within Turkey’s armed forces attempted a…
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 Soil Turkey’s long-running campaign to target and capture political opponents…
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 Vice Director and five educationists in Orizont Moldovan-Turkish Educational Institutions early…
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 Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, controversial First Vice President of Afghanistan,…
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 Mongolia for over 24 years, was abducted by Turkey’s notorious National…
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 Turkey, thousands of families and tens of thousands of people…
Torture and Suspicious Deaths in Turkish Prisons
Turkish prisons have turned into death houses during the Erdoğan regime. Stockholm Center for Freedom has tried to record people who died since 15 July 2018 in Turkey to the…
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 Turkish court in May as part of the Turkish government’s…
Women and Children in Prison
Recent reports from the Journalist and Writers Foundation in Turkey and the Stockholm Center for Freedom have estimated the number of women in Turkish prisons is a staggering 17,000 along…
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 immediately release Mesut Kaçmaz and Meral Kaçmaz, a couple that was…
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 provincial directorate. He was fired from his job with a decree issued…
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 Azerbaijan from Batumi (Georgia) on 4/20/2017 for a business trip. Once…
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 fundemental human rights have been suspended in Turkey. Erdogan Government…
Turkish Teachers in Afghanistan
The National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghan intelligence agency, abducted four teachers including one Afghan and three Turkish nationals from one of the schools run by the Afghan Turk CAG…
ERDOGAN DISSIDENTS FACE RISK OF ABDUCTION AND EXTRADITION
As it is known Turkish government has been taking strict measures to silence dissidents from various ideologies recently. Gulen Movement has been the main target of the government, which is…
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 country have been detained by Kosovan police on demands of the…
Women and Children in Prison
As you are aware, recent reports from the Journalist and Writers Foundation in Turkey and the Stockholm Center for Freedom have estimated the number of women in Turkish prisons is…
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 rising allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in Turkish police custody since…
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 February 13, Turkish media reported that Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency…
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 that Mehmet Altan and fellow journalist Sahin Alpay’s rights were being violated by pre-trial…
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 immediately after the coup attempt (21/07/2016) by the Cabinet “to preserve…
STATUTORY DECREE NO. 696
After the July 15th failed-coup attempt, the Turkish state has engaged in many illegal activities. The Erdogan regime passed several statutory decrees including the Decree number 675, which is mentioned…
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 the U.S Since the attempted coup of July 15, 2016, staunch supporters of…
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 justice have continuously deteriorated every day. Within the 24 hours after…
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 Afghan-Turk School including three Turkish and one Afghan national in Kabul, officials confirmed on Sunday.…
STATEMENT ON MISSING TEACHERS IN AFGHANISTAN
The National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghan intelligence agency, abducted four teachers including one Afghan and three Turkish nationals from one of the schools run by the Afghan Turk CAG…
Statement on Human Rights Day
As Advocates of Silenced Turkey, we are pleased to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day. Yet, unfortunately, the values emphasized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are…
