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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By detaining his colleague Idil Eser, Turkey has done something unprecedented: Amnesty International tells us that this is the first time in the organization's history that a director and a chair ...

ANKARA (Reuters) – Amnesty International said on Tuesday truth and justice had become “total strangers” in Turkey after its local director and five other activists were remanded in custody ...

A Turkish court sentenced four Amnesty International activists to between two and six years in prison on terrorism charges in a high-profile trial Friday, which the human rights group described as ...

The head of Amnesty International’s Turkey branch and 22 other lawyers were picked up on suspicion of using an encrypted telephone chat app ...

Dozens of people have been detained in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, and police blocked key parts of the city as the LGBTQ+ community attempted to hold a Pride parade.

In February 1993 the State of Emergency Coordination Council decided that outlying settlements which might support the PKK should be evacuated, and in recent months it appears to have been routine for ...

Amnesty International Turkey said two of its former leaders were convicted on "terrorist" charges by an Istanbul court on Friday in a case reflecting mounting official pressure on civil society.