Amnesty International USA Turkey Regional Action Network

04/28/2023

Türkiye: “We all need dignity” – the exclusion of persons with disabilities in Türkiye’s earthquake response

The February 2023 earthquakes in southern Türkiye – the worst in the country’s modern history – devastated entire communities. More than 48,000 people were killed and over 100,000 others were injured. Many of them lost limbs and sustained other life-changing injuries. Amnesty International ex...

11/23/2022

“Whilst we celebrate this decision today, we do not forget that across Türkiye many human rights defenders are languishing in jail, living in fear of arrest or facing similar unfounded prosecutions,” said Agnès Callamard.

The decision by Türkiye’s highest appeals court to overturn baseless convictions of Amnesty International Türkiye’s Honorary Chair and three other human rights defenders is a huge relief, yet also highlights once more the politically motivated nature of the prosecutions, Amnesty International ...

11/01/2022

Osman Kavala has been unjustly imprisoned for 5 long years. "I think that there is also a link between the arbitrary imprisonment of citizens and fatal work accidents such as mine disasters, that they both result from an understanding which does not particularly value human life."

Osman Kavala Web Sitesi

10/27/2022

New Urgent Action

In the early hours of 26 October 2022, police detained Prof Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Union of Turkish Medical Associations. A criminal investigation was launched against Prof Fincancı, a prominent human rights defender and forensic medicine expert, after she called for an independent investigation into allegations that Turkish armed forces might have used chemical weapons in Kurdistan Region of Iraq in comments during a live TV interview. Prof Fincancı must be released immediately and unconditionally from detention and must not be prosecuted for her human rights work.

In the early hours of 26 October 2022, police detained Prof Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Union of Turkish Medical Associations. A criminal investigation was launched against Prof Fincancı, a prominent human rights defender and forensic medicine expert, after she called for an independen...

08/30/2022

How to Get Justice for the Disappeared

By the AIUSA Cogroup Writers

08/30/2022

August 30 is the International Day of the Disappeared.

August 30 is the International Day of the Disappeared. Victims of enforced disappearance are people who have literally disappeared; from their loved ones and their community. They go missing when state officials (or someone acting with state consent) grabs them from the street or from their homes an...

07/27/2022

A history of struggle: Turkey’s Human Rights Association

One of Turkey's leading human rights defenders has given a detailed account of Turkey’s human rights record, as she described

07/18/2022

Turkey: Release prisoner of conscience Osman Kavala immediately, following binding infringement ruling

Following today’s European Court of Human Rights judgment condemning Turkey for failing to ensure implementation of the Court’s 2019 ruling demanding Osman Kavala’s immediate release, concluding that the Court “considered that the measures indicated by Türkiye [Turkey] did not permit it to ...

06/26/2022

Turkey: Police arrest dozens of protesters during Istanbul Pride march https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-police-arrest-dozens-istanbul-pride-march?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_sw6jldfik3

06/18/2022

Turkey: Amnesty names Osman Kavala and Gezi Park defendants as prisoners of conscience
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/turkey-amnesty-names-osman-kavala-and-gezi-park-defendants-as-prisoners-of-conscience/

06/09/2022

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/EUR44/5683/2022/en/

06/04/2022