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Erdogan unveils human rights reforms, raising skepticism among advocates

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday announced an 11-point human rights action plan, pledging to fortify freedoms and legal protections after years of democratic backsliding under his government.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190119:23:54:00

>> so i'm wondering, i know you've talked to members of congress. >> right. >> and you've gotten support and help there. have you been talking to anyone inside the white house or in the administration? >> well, i mean, i would love to because i have not reached out to them yet, or they haven't reached out to me yet. if i have a chance, i would love to sit down with mr. trump and talk about how erdogan uses his power to abuse human rights in turkey. and i would love to do that because they know my story because i play in the nba. there are thousands and thousands of stories out there waiting to be heard -- >> to be told -- >> in turkey, yes. that's why i would love to sit down with mr. trump and talk about these issues. >> i hope he hears that plea. >> i hope so. >> you still have family in turkey. >> yes, i do. >> has this put a strain on you and your family there? >> it's tough because while it was two years ago, the police came to my house and raided my whole house. they took every electronic away, phones away, computers, away, laptops away. they wanted to see if i'm still in contact with my family or not. if they were to see any little

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190117:20:58:00

or not. so that's why it's very tough. >> you were on capitol hill a couple of days ago. what are you asking from the u.s. government? what do you want? >> i meet with lots of senators and congressmen and they were very helpful. we talk about the extradite. we talk about interpol. we talk about the issues and we talk about the human rights in turkey. and i was very shocked because i was talking about this stuff. they stopped me. they're like don't worry about it. we already know all this stuff. and that made me very happy because all these people, congressmen, senators know about -- >> they're aware? >> yes. >> they're wear? and you said you feel safe in this country? >> yes. >> my last question is i can feel your sadness for your family, your passport has been taken away. you haven't been home since 2015? >> yes. >> but you have been so outspoken. >> yes. >> about erdogan.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190110:00:23:00

threat by the by the people with whom they doing any kind of reports but some of our journalists might use alias names for their reports and some of them are really in well i won't say in a little bit danger because they're took citizens as we have a german german correspondent any symbol and she's pretty safe the only thing that she has to face is that she's flown out of the country and now is it because she's german images or nationality or certainly the nationality is an issue and our turkish colleagues are really in a kind of that way you know it's unfortunately the case they're gone are going to have w.'s turkish service telling us how the w.'s trying to help one of its own tonight air con thank you my pleasure are going to take the story now to london i'm joined by jim she is a campaigner for human rights in turkey for amnesty international it's good to see you this evening unity w's reporter she's not the only journalist to be targeted by

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180320:23:12:00

what we do know is that putin has been elected in their country. and that's not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. >> phil, it doesn't add up. the vice president is going to be giving a speech on venezuela calling on them to call for free and fair elections in venezuela. so the facts are they are per fblgtly happy to call for that in that case but did not add up to putin. >> it does add up. if you look at what president trump said since coming into office. horrific if pihilippines, we don't talk about it. general see see, really questionable human rights in turkey, president calls him and gre congratulates him op the election. thes message is simple if you can put a thumb on people and stamp out decent, we don't care

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180208:14:35:00

reaction is to say clearly that iran has absolutely no credibility whatsoever because branding your political opponents terrorists i mean that is that has been done again again in history by autocratic or even fascist governments and so everybody knows that move aaron if you once to tell the world and he if he wants to convince europeans that they are terrorists among those who have been imprisoned he then needs to stick to the rule of law and let judicial process take its course that is the way to go forward and also parliament calls to the rule of emergency urgently because that is being used they say in order to bring about all this of political persecution and this current state of affairs in turkey. proper of a so reporting for us from strasburg where the european parliament has been talking about human rights in turkey today thank you barbara. and ben is back now with

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180131:18:18:00

commission what more can you tell us about. well that's a completely different court case it's about eleven human rights defenders in total they were arrested on an island in the last summer while they were attending a digital security workshop but prosecutors say they were secretly meeting in order to organize an opera so the charges here are terrorism charges connecting to the failed military coup here in turkey in summer twenty sixteen last year most of the most of the defendants were actually released pending trial and today. the local president of amnesty international was released as well but the trial continues and all of them actually still face up to fifteen years of jail time so what does this all mean for human rights in turkey. well this might be a tiny little ray of sunshine here in this situation but these terrorism charges

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170616:22:51:00

donald trump didn't win florida. i think that politics in 2008 and 2020 played a major role in this event today where he seemed to take a hard stance against this when you look at the bare bones of it, not much is changing from the obama policy. >> when he says i am canceling the obama deal. >> a little ttle as terrifiteri. he was -- >> right. >> lecturing about -- >> human rights in turkey and egypt. >> saudi arabia and others. >> those are all excellent questions. everybody constitutes. coming up, the verdict in the trial of the police officer who fatally shot orlando castillo. the girlfriend broadcast the shootings's aftermath live on

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