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Reports
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Reports of UN Special Rapporteurs Turkey
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Grantmaking) Country Notes
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2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey
Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports, 2009: Turkey
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General News
Police fire tear gas at Republic Day protesters (October 2012)
Police in Turkey have fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse thousands of pro-secular protesters
who marched in the capital Ankara to mark Republic Day. The rally organised by dozens of civil society
organisations and backed by some opposition parties began outside the first parliament building in the
historic Ulus district.
Journalists targeted by smear campaign (September 2012)
Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the aggressive smear campaign that the Islamist and
nationalist daily Yeni Akit (New Agreement) and its website, Habervaktim.com, have been waging in recent
days against four leading journalists - Ali Bayramoglu, Cengiz Candar, Hasan Cemal and Yasemin Congar -
because of their views on Turkey's Kurdish issue. Politicians are also being attacked. "By targeting people
committed to tolerance and peace, this campaign is trying to block any evolution in Turkish society,"
Reporters Without Borders said. "Experience has shown the degree to which this kind of prejudiced,
xenophobic and paranoid discourse is not just harmful but also dangerous. Words have meaning and the
accusations levelled against these journalists expose them to real peril. This virulent hate campaign must
stop at once and everything possible must be done to protect its targets."
Government cracks down on trade union activists (July 2012)
Mr. Osman İşçi, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network executive member and the Human Rights
Association’s International Relations former expert, was reportedly detained in Ankara on the morning of June
25. It is also reported that there are warrants of arrest for 58 trade unionists. Police teams have been raiding
various branches of trade unions of the Koma Ciwaken Kurdistan-Kurdistan Communities League. The KCK is
accused of being an umbrella organization that includes the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Confirmed pre-trial detention of defender Osman Isci and 27 trade union members: Joint press release (July
2012)
The undersigned organizations express their deepest concern regarding the decision of the court to place in