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30th April 2025
Türkiye: Ban on May Day celebrations in Istanbul’s Taksim Square must be lifted

24th March 2025
Türkiye: Unlawful and indiscriminate attacks on peaceful protesters must end and protest bans must be lifted immediately

19th March 2025
Türkiye: Massive escalation in ongoing crackdown including arrest of Istanbul mayor

18th March 2025
DRC: M23’s rampant human rights abuses demand concerted international action

18th March 2025
Hungary: Pride ban is full-frontal attack on LGBTI people and must not be signed into law

8th October 2024
Write for Rights 2024: Defend Şebnem against intimidation and harassment

Amnesty activists march in Dublin Pride holding a banner that reads Pride is Protest

5th July 2023
Amnesty Ireland at Pride

Members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community take part in the 10th Izmir LGBTI+ Pride March in Izmir, Turkey, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. (Photo by: Berkcan Zengin/GocherImagery/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

23rd June 2023
Türkiye: Istanbul Pride showdown highlights threat to LGBTI rights

Türkiye_ post-earthquake persons with disabilities accesses to humanitarian relief

27th April 2023
Türkiye: People with disabilities neglected in humanitarian response to devastating earthquakes

Law enforcement officials sent to police the region devastated by Türkiye’s 6 February earthquakes have beaten, tortured, and otherwise ill-treated people they suspect of theft and looting, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

5th April 2023
Türkiye: Police and gendarmerie commit abuses in earthquake zone

8th March 2023
Türkiye: International Women’s Day march must go ahead “without bans, beatings and other police violence”

Wreckage from the earthquake in Turkiye and Syria

7th February 2023
Syria: International action needed after devastating earthquake afflicts war-torn regions

Emine Ocak, a member of Saturday Mothers Turkish group is detained by Turkish female riot police during a demonstration on August 25, 2018 in Istanbul. - Istanbul police break up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers and other relatives of people that were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining dozens as they marked holding the 700th such weekly protest. (Photo by Hayri TUNC / AFP) (Photo credit should read HAYRI TUNC/AFP/Getty Images) ------- The photo shows Emine Ocak, mother of Hasan Ocak, who was forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state in 1995 at age 23. The longstanding peaceful vigil known as the ‘Saturday Mothers’ vigil first started as a response to the hundreds of reported cases of enforced disappearances during the 1980s and 1990s by relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared and to protest against the prevalent impunity for grave human rights violations of the day. The exact circumstances of the disappearances in the vast majority of cases are still unknown, including the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of victims, and those responsible have not been brought to justice. Saturday Mothers have held 699 peaceful gatherings since May 1995. During this time, many participants have faced intimidation, harassment, excessive use of force, arbitrary detention and unjust prosecution. In 1999, as a result, the organizers decided to stop holding the weekly vigils, which resumed in 2009 to continue with their demand of truth and justice for all cases of enforced disappearances. On 25 August, police in Istanbul used unnecessary and excessive force, including tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons, to disperse participants of a weekly vigil - known as the ‘Saturday Mothers vigil’ - held for victims of enforced disappearance. The longstanding protest was marking its 700th week since it was first held in 1995. Scores of participants, including elderly relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state, were ill-treated and 47 people were detained before being released from police custody later that day.

25th October 2022
Protect the Protest of Saturday Mothers/People’s weekly vigil

17th June 2022
Turkey: Amnesty names Osman Kavala and Gezi Park defendants as prisoners of conscience

25th April 2022
Turkey: Aggravated life sentence for Osman Kavala a ‘devastating blow’ for human rights

19th January 2021
Turkey: Facebook and other companies “in danger of becoming an instrument of state censorship”

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