Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old off duty policeman, has just killed the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov: an art exhibition in the Turkish capital Ankara becomes the scene of a brutal homicide on the 19th of December 2016. This was captured by Burhan Ozbilici, Turkish photographer for The Associated Press. A scene from a political thriller? No,
Uomini bruciati vivi, esecuzioni sommarie. Le ultime ore di combattimenti ad Aleppo segnate da terribili atrocità. Accordo per evacuare i civili.
State of emergency could threaten human rights In response to the failure of the military coup that took place on the 15th of July, the Turkish government has begun a series of crackdown measures. These include declaring a three-month long state of emergency and suspending the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Thousands of Turkish citizens, from academics to soldiers and
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a state of emergency in Turkey that has been approved by the parliament in a 346 to 115 vote. In effect since the 21st of July, it will last 3 months. Turkey suspends the European Convention on Human Rights The most controversial and worrisome consequence is the suspension of the
Th UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May chose Boris Johnson as the country’s foreign secretary. Why was the world so surprised by this decision?
More than 100 civilians have reportedly been burnt to death in the city of Cizre in southeastern Turkey at the hands of the country’s armed forces. The chief of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Zeid Raad al-Hussein, has called for an independent investigation. The UN describes the actions as “extremely alarming” Zeid said
Two journalists reported that the Turkish secret service shipped illegal arms to Syria. They have been sentenced to five years in jail, after a gunman tried to kill one of them outside the courthouse.
Located in the South-Caucasus, the mountainous republic of Nagorno Karabakh is a presidential democracy inhabited by ethnic Armenians. In 1923, Stalin handed the territory over to Azerbaijan following a divide and rule policy put into place to weaken the national aspirations of minority groups. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a war broke
In the latest attack on freedom of expression in Turkey, three academics who signed a peace petition in January 2016 have been detained by a court of Istanbul, being charged with making terrorist propaganda. The 3 were arrested on 15 March 2016, pending the completion of a criminal investigation. Security forces requested imprisonment up to
Un nuovo attentato ha scosso domenica la centralissima piazza Kiliay di Ankara, in Turchia. Autori del gesto due kamikaze.
