While the AKP government is jailing all opponent sectors of society and Kurds in particular, Turkey has almost been turned into an open prison within the process of the AKP government in the last ten years.
From Hrant Dink in 2007 to Ragip Zarakolu, 2012 -The targeting of the “Other” in Turkey - By Desmond Fernandes....
TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION ...
We, the undersigned condemn the Turkish State for, violating its own laws and conventions by deploying extremely high toxic and lethal chemical weapons. ...
Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country's Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it, Constanze Letsch in Diyarbakir, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 December 2011 ...
As a non-government organization contributing for over 38 years to the struggle for human rights and freedoms in Turkey, Info-Türk Foundation has decided to grant its 2012 Freedom Award to author, journalist, publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu* who is currently under arrest at the high security prison type-F in Kocaeli....
Turkey’s persecution of legally elected Kurdish representatives, media members, lawyers, trade unionists and Kurdish spokespersons in and outside Turkey, seems to have no end. More than 5000 people have so far been arrested accused of having links to PKK – the so called KCK operations.
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Questioning the EU project through Turkey's accession process...
EUTCC expresses deep concern over the recent KCK operations targeting Kurdish media and members of the press. ...
As over 40 people, many of them journalists, are detained on terrorism charges across Turkey, Kaya Genç examines the latest attempt to silence the Kurdish press...
