Nuriye Gülmen can or cannot protest? Nuriye Gülmen, a leftist academician from the Comparative Literature Department of Eskişehir Ozmangazi University is protesting against her dismissal during the purges that followed the coup attempt in July.
"It is only some spaces that they have sealed off, we are everywhere." The Interior Ministry of Turkey has taken a new step by suspending the activities of 370 NGOs for three months for their alleged connections with the Gülenists (153), PKK (190), DHKP-C (19), and ISIS (8). The decree was based on the Law of the State of Emergency and was justified by the need “to protect the general security and the public order.”
Secular public education under threat in Turkey The students, the parents, the graduate associations of these long-established schools criticize this policy of project schools to the making of which they didn’t participate in any way, and fear that the government sees these schools as the new fronts in expanding its Islamist hegemony.
The Future of Civic Space: Towards a Re-solidarisation and Re-politisation of Civil Society Civil society space is under attack worldwide. In her welcoming speech to the Global Perspectives Conference, Barbara Unmüßig urged 160 representatives of civil society organisations from around the globe to stand in solidarity with each other and to put the issue of shrinking and closing spaces back on the political agenda.
Civic Charter Repression of civil society is on the rise all over the world. The charter aims to support civil society organizations as activists throughout the world, to advocate for their rights and freedom of action, and to demand government guarantees.
While officially still legal, women in Turkey face de-facto abortion ban A recent research by Kadir Has University, Istanbul indicates that there is almost a de-facto abortion ban all over Turkey.
Government imposes new backdoor to cripple press freedom The pressure on the media in Turkey has reached a new peak with the recently introduced “Periodicals Regulation,” and especially its parts concerning the official Press Announcement Agency
"This culture of impunity makes it easier for killings to take place" The NGO Global Witness documents 185 known deaths of environmental activists worldwide in 2015 - the highest annual death toll on record. Claudia Rolf spoke to one of the authors of the report, Billy Kyte.
Saturday Mothers: Call against forced disappearance for the 600th time The Mothers and activists have come together for the 600th time on September 24, 2016 with the following demands: unclose the fate of the disappeared; put the perpetrators on trial; never let anyone be disappeared again.
Democracy Price in the name of murdered journalist Hrant Dink awarded to Kurdish lawyers Since 2009 the foundation has been annually awarding the International Hrant Dink Prize, the most prestigious human rights award in Turkey.
