The rights group's Turkey chair was taken into custody last month, and Amnesty says it is the first time in its history that a country has detained its chair and director at the same time.

Amnesty says police also detained 22 other lawyers in the western coastal city of Izmir. Kiliç has served as the chair of Amnesty International Turkey since 2014 and has been involved in its ...

Amnesty Secretary General Salil Shetty said the lawyers' detention was proof of "how arbitrary" Turkey's crackdown on the Gulen movement has become.

ANKARA, Turkey --Amnesty International's chairman in Turkey has been detained as part of a crackdown on people suspected of links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused by ...

With Turkey's government-run refugee camps operating at full capacity, more than 1 million Syrian refugees who have flocked to Turkey to escape fighting at home are struggling to survive on their ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of Amnesty International’s then-branch chairman when it imprisoned him for more than 14 months. Turkey had ...

The kingdom executed 1,816 people between January 2014 and June 2025, including nationals from Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey’s interference with its judiciary deepened in 2024 with binding rulings of the local constitutional court and judgements of the European Court of Human Rights ...

The layoffs came after Amnesty International left the collective bargaining negotiations with DİSK Sosyal-İş union. Eight out of the 24 employees were laid off, causing concern among both those who ...

Amnesty International says that shortly after sunrise on Tuesday, security forces turned up at the home of its Turkey country chairman, brought him to his office, then took him into custody. The ...