27.06.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Investigation report into the detention of journalist Haci Bogatekin, imprisoned for more than two months and facing ten and a half years in prison"

Detailed information on case of journalist, detained for more than 2 months and sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison [ID 99402]

19.06.2008 - Source:BBC News 

" Kurdish child choir case dropped"

Judge has thrown out a case against members of a Kurdish children's choir, who faced up five years in prison over a song they sang [ID 98713]

19.06.2008 - Source:World Organisation Against Torture 

"Steadfast in Protest. Annual Report 2007" , Author: The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Annual report on the situation of human rights defenders [ID 98674]

19.06.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Court acquits owner and editor of Armenian weekly"

Owner and editor of Armenian weekly acquitted after being charged for publicly criticising prison sentences imposed on 3 of its journalists [ID 98816]

18.06.2008 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Turkey: Three children on trial in case over freedom of expression [EUR 44/011/20008]"

3 boys will go on trial in Diyarbakır accused of violating Article 7/2 of the anti-terror law that criminalises “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation or its aims” [ID 98685]

18.06.2008 - Source:BBC News 

"Turkish singer tried over dissent"

One of Turkey's most popular singers, Bulent Ersoy, goes on trial accused of turning the public against the military [ID 98696]

17.06.2008 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Further Information on Urgent Action 163/08 (EUR 44/009/2008, 11 June 2008) [EUR 44/010/2008]"

Conscientious objector Mehmet Bal was transferred to a military prison to stand trial before a military court; AI considers him to be a prisoner of conscience [ID 98681]

11.06.2008 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Urgent Action 163/08 [EUR 44/009/2008]"

Conscientious objector Mehmet Bal was arrested for evading military service; he says he was ill-treated [ID 98490]

09.06.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"YouTube blocked for more than a month is an “unacceptable” act of censorship"

YouTube blocked for more than a month is an “unacceptable” act of censorship [ID 98359]

06.06.2008 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Constitutional Court Ruling Upholds Headscarf Ban"

According to HRW, constitutional court to cancel constitutional amendments that would have opened way for women to wear headscarf in universities is blow to freedom of religion and other fundamental rights [ID 98031]

06.06.2008 - Source:BBC News 

"Turkey headscarf ruling attacked"

AK Party attacks the Constitutional Court for blocking moves to permit headscarves at universities [ID 98048]

06.06.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Turkey: High Court Reverses Parliament, Bans Head Scarves At Schools"

Constitutional Court ruled that constitutional amendments that would have allowed head scarves at universities were contrary to the country's modern principles of secularism [ID 98216]

05.06.2008 - Source:BBC News 

"Court annuls Turkish scarf reform"

Turkey's highest court blocks government moves to allow college students to wear Muslim headscarves [ID 97930]

04.06.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Turkey: Religious Officials Criticized For Stance On Women"

"Sexual life" article making proclamations about Muslim women and their behaviour published by the Directorate on Religious Affairs (Diyanet) fiercely criticised by secularists and feminist groups [ID 98199]

04.06.2008 - Source:US Department of State 

"Trafficking in Persons Report 2008"

Trafficking in Persons Report 2008 [ID 98309]

03.06.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Theologians Take Conservative Turkish Clothing Designer To Court"

2 liberal theologians have taken the country's most famous Islamic clothes designer to court, alleging the couturier is exploiting religion for personal profit; the case is highlighting the growing tension between Islam and the country’s market economy [ID 97998]

02.06.2008 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Turkey: Court Shows Bias, Dissolves Lambda Istanbul"

Court's decision to disband a human rights organisation defending lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people shows that official repression poses a serious threat to democratic rights and freedom of association, HRW said [ID 97877]

30.05.2008 - Source:BBC News 

"Turkish gay group will fight ban"

Turkish gay rights group wants to fight its court-ordered ban for "violating morality" [ID 97736]

28.05.2008 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Annual Report 2008"

Annual Report 2008 (covering 2007) [ID 97575]

27.05.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"The Kurdish issue and Nagorno-Karabakh"

Nagorno-Karabakh: According to Turkish media, Kurdish fighters have settled in strategically important Lachin Corridor, in Armenian occupied Azerbaijani territory; allegedly, with support of Armenian government; fear of military Turkish and Azerbaijani military operations under pretext of Kurdish threat in Karabakh [ID 97353]

27.05.2008 - Source:International Committee of the Red Cross 

"Annual Report 2007"

Annual Report 2007 [ID 98195]

22.05.2008 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"“We Need a Law for Liberation” Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing Turkey"

Report on state violence, harassment and abuses against homosexual and bisexual men and women and against transgender people [ID 97858]

13.05.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Authorities urged to amend restrictive laws after YouTube blocked for third time in two months"

Authorities urged to amend restrictive laws after You Tube blocked for third time in 2 months [ID 96770]

10.05.2008 - Source:BBC News 

"Strikes 'kill 19 rebels'"

South-Eastern Turkey: Military says it has killed at least 19 Kurdish rebels in air strike [ID 96498]

07.05.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Concern about violence against journalists in Istanbul"

Istanbul: Violence against journalists on the rise [ID 96482]