Almost 300 journalists in Turkey, a member state of the Council of Europe and a candidate country to the European Union, are languishing behind bars or facing outstanding arrest warrants,
This report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who
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Turkey recently called snap elections to be held June 24, even as it extended the state of emergency for a seventh time since a failed coup attempt in 2016. And
