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Imprisoned children in Turkey | DW Documentary (Prison documentary)

2-year-old Miraz lives with his mother – in a Turkish prison. His mother is a Kurdish activist who was handed down a 4-year sentence for ‘terrorist propaganda’. He spends the…

International Women’s Day Messages from all around the World about the women in Turkish jails

Sexual Assault can not be Justified

We have a right, a responsibility, to speak for women who cannot. #MerveDemirel, with her bravest statement, she spoke for all: “We, as women, should never be ashamed of harassment.…

European Parliament Adopts Draft Report on Turkey focused on Human Rights Violations and Call on Suspending Accession Talks

The European Parliament has adopted the draft report on Turkey, that underpins corruption, human rights violations, shut-down of 160 media organizations, violation of rights defenders’ rights, concerns about setbacks in…

Binlerce sağlık çalışanının işlerinden tasfiyesi ve Doktor Umut’un hikayesi…

Türkiyedeki cadı avının başlamasından sonra Sağlık Bakanlığı, devlet çalışanlarının işlerinden toplu olarak tasfiyesi kapsamında, birçok hekimide içeren 7.500’den fazla sağlık çalışanının görevlerinden alındığını açıkladı. Tasfiye, işten çıkarılan hekimlerin ve sağlık…

Purge of Thousands of Health Care Professionals and Doctor Umut

The Ministry of Health has announced that more than 7,500 health care professionals including many physicians have been dismissed within the scope of a mass purge of government employees from…

Academic Purge and Brain Drain of Turkey by SRW

Academic Purge and Brain Drain of Turkey. It started long before Turkey’s July 15, 2016 botched coup attempt. Slowly but steadily, young professionals, entrepreneurs, engineers, academics and new graduates started…

Children and their Mothers are Prisoners of Conscience in Turkey

One of the most alarming actions of the Turkish authorities is the incarceration of women who are pregnant or have just given birth. Some are incarcerated with their children and…

Government seizes businesses in Turkey

The Turkish government has seized hundreds of businesses. Many of the owners have fled to Germany. The government accused these owners of supporting the Gülen movement. The government says Gülen…

Torture in Turkey

This video is about people who were tortured in custody after the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Even though there is not any solid evidence against these people…

The Story of the Maden Family

Under Erdogan’s brutal regime, Turkey’s democracy derailed, innocent people are tortured or even killed in prisons. Those who wish to flee Turkey have a challenging journey to take, likely to…

Set them free – International Day of the Girl Child

A young girl is behind bars with her mother in Istanbul one day while the mother was being searched before entering the courtroom. As the metal detector signaled and the…

The Economist; Democracy is under threat all around the world.

Democracy is under threat all around the world. There are four stages to dismantling a democracy, starting with a charismatic leader who pledges to save the people pic.twitter.com/w9cIti4AsR — The…

Persecuting the future: The child victims of Turkey’s purge under Erdogan’s Regime

Children struggle in the prison of Turkey. The current panel execution law No:5275 reads” imprisonment is adjourned for women who are pregnant or who have not passed 6 months since…

Justice suffocates in post-coup Turkey: LAWYERS BEHIND BARS

The bloody July 15th coup attempt proved to be a turning point in the course of the crackdown and witch-hunt the AKP government had launched in the aftermath of the…

Torture in Turkey reported by journalist Cevheri Guven

Α documentary about the “Torture Farm’ in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara. The video was prepared by Bold Media.

UN Working Group calls on AKP govt to release Kaçmaz Family

Citing the state of emergency it has declared after the coup attempt in July 2016, the AKP government has further exacerbated its heavy human rights violations following the corruption operations…

BM’den AKP iktidarına ültimatom: ‘Kaçmaz ailesini derhal ve şartsız serbest bırakın!’

Birleşmiş Milletler Keyfi Gözaltı Çalışma Grubu, yaşattığı ağır insan hakları ihlallerini ilan ettiği OHAL döneminde daha da şiddetlendiren AKP iktidarına ültimatom niteliğinde bir çağrı yaptı. Bir deklarasyon yayımlayan grup, Pakistan’dan…

#FreeTanerKilic

What was your last happy family moment? Our colleague #TanerKılıç has missed all of them during the last year, being wrongfully imprisoned in #Turkey. #FreeTaner pic.twitter.com/ZwzCrKJlbs — Amnesty New Zealand…

Story of Gokhan Acikkollu

Animatic story of Turkish teacher Gokhan Acikkollu who was tortured to death under police custody in Turkey. Video prepared by Huddled Masses.

Mother’s Day 2018

English: Turkish: Tens of thousands of women, including housewives, journalists, teachers, academics, physicians, healthcare professionals, and businesswomen have been arbitrarily detained. Many of the detained women in the prison system…

A Rogue State Under Erdogan

A Rogue State Under Erdogan: Turkey’s global witch-hunt and unlawful abductions of dissidents abroad The Turkish government has been conducting a witch-hunt against the dissenting groups under the state of…

The noose | Ilmik

Α documentary about the press freedom and the human rights in Turkey. A film by Thomas Sideris.

SaveTurkishJournalists: RSF appeals to European Court

Video prepared by Reporters without Borders. Source: https://rsf.org/en/news/saveturkishjournalists-rsf-appeals-european-court

Hundreds of young Turkish children jailed alongside their moms as part of a post-coup crackdown

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Hear some of the tragic stories of some of the over 600 children that are imprisoned in Turkey after the failed coup attempt in…

47 protesters detained in Turkey after demo in support of arrested teachers

Turkish police detained 47 protesters in the capital Ankara on 23 July, for demonstrating in support of two teachers arrested for going on a hunger strike. The teachers went on…

PA State Rep. Margo Davidson reflects on her visit to Turkish refugees in Greece

When my constituents who are from Turkey started telling me about the plight of the Turkish people, it became more and more concerning. And then, when I was asked by…

Dear Osman, dear Ahmet, dear Selahattin – speech in EP Plenary, Joint debate Turkey

The numbers are mind-boggling: 1⃣5⃣0⃣K – people fired 5⃣0⃣K – people imprisoned Remember that all these people have a face, have a family and have friends who are hoping for…

Refugees are nowhere without your understanding

Some people find it hard to accept refugees. But what if they went through the same journey?

Outside: Get out of Turkey

Is there a new refugee movement in Europe? Thousands of asylum seekers from Turkey already come from Turkey every month. The video is in Turkish and Finnish.