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 ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down ...

Dozens of people have been detained in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, and police blocked key parts of the city as the ...

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

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 ...

The arrest operation is the fifth after Turkey jailed Istanbul's mayor and leading opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu.

Amnesty International said it is also calling on all countries not to forcibly return Afghans not only to Afghanistan, but also to Turkey or Iran, where Afghans would be at risk of deportation to ...

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.