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Turkey: Rights Protections Missing From Emergency Decree
(Istanbul) – The first emergency decree under Turkey’s state of emergency is arbitrary, discriminatory, and unjustified as a response to the violent coup attempt or other public order concerns. The...
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Turkey: Border Guards Kill and Injure Asylum Seekers
(Istanbul) – Turkish border guards are shooting and beating Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Turkey, resulting in deaths and serious injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. The Turkish...
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Turkey: Media Shut Down, Journalists Detained
(Istanbul) – The Turkish government’s news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order today....
View ArticleTurkey: Syrians Shot, Beaten, and Killed at Border
Turkish border guards are shooting and beating Syrian asylum seekers and the smugglers helping them cross to Turkey, resulting in deaths and serious injuries. The Turkish authorities should end their...
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The Government Response to Turkey’s Coup Is an Affront to Democracy
ExpandThe Ankara police headquarters is seen through a car's broken window caused by fighting during a coup attempt in Ankara, Turkey, July 19, 2016.©REUTERS/Baz Ratne The word “coup” in French...
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Turkey: Judges, Prosecutors Unfairly Jailed
ExpandMembers of police special forces keep watch from an armored vehicle in front of the Justice Palace in Ankara, Turkey, July 18, 2016. © 2016 Baz Ratner/Reuters (Istanbul) – Turkey’s courts have...
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When Refugees Work, Children More Likely to Attend School
ExpandSchool supplies belonging to a Syrian refugee child enrolled in her local Turkish public school. For Syrian refugee children living in Turkey, regularly attending school can be a source of...
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Provide Genuine Refuge to World’s Displaced
ExpandAsylum seekers behind a metal fence in the ‘Hangar 1’ detention center, in Röszke, Hungary. September 9, 2015.© 2015 Zalmaï for Human Rights Watch (New York) – The massive refugee crisis demands...
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Refugee Education Crisis Requires a Global Employment Strategy
(Istanbul) – What 15-year-old Rawan, a Syrian refugee living in Istanbul, wants most is simply to be back in school. In Syria, she’d been a good student with hopes of attending university, but now her...
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Syria: Turkish Strikes on SDF Fighters Kill 24 Civilians
(New York) – A Turkish attack on US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters in northern Syria on August 28, 2016, killed 24 civilians, including 6 children. Between 10 and 15 fighters deployed...
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Education for Syrian Refugee Children: What Donors and Host Countries Should Do
ExpandMaya, 9, reads a school textbook in her family home. She enjoys attending her local public school in izmir, on turkey’s west coast, where she is one of four Syrian students in her class.© 2015...
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Educating Refugee Children in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan
ExpandMaya, 9, reads a school textbook in her family home. She enjoys attending her local public school in izmir, on turkey’s west coast, where she is one of four Syrian students in her class.© 2015...
View ArticleUN rights body cannot ignore the situations in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia
Human Rights Watch continues to be concerned about a number of country situations that are not receiving the attention they require from the Human Rights Council.In Turkey, since the coup attempt on...
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Educate Refugee Children Or Lose Them Forever
As world leaders gather for President Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Refugees on September 20, they should urgently address how to get the more than 3.5 million refugee children around the world who aren’t...
View Article750,000 Syrian Children Out of School
Education for Syrian children has become a casualty of war.: school enrollment rates have fallen drastically, not only in Syria but among children who have fled. Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan have taken...
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Turkey: Independent TV News Silenced
(Istanbul) – The closure of eight independent news and current affairs-focused TV channels effectively ends critical television news reporting in Turkey. The channels are among 23 television and radio...
View ArticleTurkey: State of emergency provisions violate human rights and should be revoked
We, the undersigned organisations, recognise that the Turkish government has the right and responsibility to investigate the violent events of the July 2016 coup attempt and to bring all those...
View ArticleA Blank Check
SummaryBecause of the state of emergency, nobody will care if I kill you. I will just say I shot you while you tried to run away.-Police officer to a detainee, overheard by family members of another...
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Turkey: Emergency Decrees Facilitate Torture
(Istanbul) – Turkish police have tortured and otherwise ill-treated individuals in their custody after emergency decrees removed crucial safeguards in the wake of a failed coup attempt in July, 2016,...
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