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A group of Turkish mothers whose children were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 90s held a public vigil in Istanbul without police interference Saturday. This marks the first time the “Saturday Mothers” group has been allowed to proceed with such an event since police dispersed one of their demonstrations in 2018. The group’s vigils [...]

Türkiye found itself the subject of international reproach on Friday, as a coalition of 27 bar associations, human rights organizations, and legal groups from eight countries pronounced their condemnation of the country’s alleged mistreatment of lawyers. The joint statement followed the conclusion of a fact-finding mission conducted within the nation. The scrutiny primarily centered on [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov is a political science student at Bard College, Berlin. He previously studied at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the University of Tartu, and the University of Zagreb.  The EU Crisis Regulation is sometimes called the key element in finalizing the deal on the highly anticipated Migration [...]

Why do coups d’état happen? Is it that bad leadership pushes people to their boiling points, compelling them to take matters into their own hands? Or is it a lack of adequate preventative laws? Do external factors play a role? And in Africa specifically, how much of an impact does history tend to have? Moreover, [...]

On September 18, 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a speech in the parliament of Canada claiming to have “credible information” on the role of “agents” of the government of India in the targeted killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar (leader of a Sikh separatist movement in India, whom India claim as a [...]

Around 400 migrants and refugees staged a protest on Sunday at the Acadia port of Rhodes. Protesters attempted to prevent the departure of the ferry “Nissos Chicos” by standing on its ramp. After hours of police negotiation, the boat left without them. They demanded to be taken off the island and either transported to the [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Wednesday targeting individuals that contribute to Hamas operations and financing. In total, OFAC announced sanctions on ten individuals in Gaza, Sudan, Turkey, Algeria and Qatar for being members of Hamas, contributing to Hamas operations or facilitating financing for Hamas. The sanctions [...]

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld much of the controversial Gezi Park ruling on Thursday, which is named after a central park in Istanbul where 2013 anti-government protests broke out. Included in the ruling was the court’s decision to affirm a sentence of life without parole for civil rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala and [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Turkey responsible for unfair trial violations in a landmark judgment Tuesday concerning criminal convictions based on use of the encrypted messaging application ByLock . ByLock came under scrutiny from Turkish authorities following the failed 2016 coup attempt. The government alleged the app was used exclusively by supporters [...]

The European General Court Wednesday dismissed a claim made by a group of Syrian refugees against Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which attempted to hold Frontex accountable for forcibly transferring the refugees from Greece to Turkey even though they were in the process of applying for asylum. The claimants alleged that, by [...]