Turkey: Gender Diversity is a human right!
IDAHOT Day: EuroMed Rights stresses its solidarity with organisations and LGBTQI+ activists fighting for their rights in Turkey and across the region.
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Free the Gezi defendants!
Joint statement from 28 organisations, including EuroMed Rights, denouncing the verdict of the Gezi trial handed down on 25 April 2022.
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Turkey: new trial against Öztürk Türkdoğan, new proof of judicial harassment
Statement in support of IHD Co-Chairperson Öztürk Türkdoğan ahead of the first hearing of his trial on 22 February 2022.
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Turkey’s biased use of counter-terrorist measures
In Turkey, counterterrorism measures have long been used to prevent the work carried out by civil society organisations. In 2021, the situation worsened for these organisations since the adoption, on
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Turkey: Freedom of expression endangered in universities
Joint press release from EuroMed Rights, Human Rights Association Turkey and Civic Space Studies Association calling for the release of Boğaziçi University students.
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It’s time to map backlashes to gender equality!
Violations of women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights are intensifying across the Euro-Mediterranean region. A multitude of actors originating from autocratic, illiberal, and even democratic countries are now publicly holding anti-women and anti-LGBTIQ stances. These backlashes take multiple forms. Despite the strong
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Putting backlashes to gender equality on the (political) map!
EuroMed Rights publishes a new interactive tool to monitor contestations of gender equality across nine countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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Turkey: the judicial harassment against Şeyhmus Gökalp must stop!
UPDATE: On 19 November 2021, Şeyhmus Gökalp was acquitted of all terrorism-related charges by the Diyarbakır 10th Heavy Penal Court. The Prosecutor objected to this acquittal, and this objection is
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
On the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, EuroMed Rights publishes a state of play in the MENA region. We look at the case of Turkey with our
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Turkey: Defence lawyers targeted even in Court
Lawyers in Turkey are now at risk of physical violence even in ourt. On 13 September, during the hearing of the case of the Spokesperson of the Free Women’s Movement,
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