Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged on March 2 to strengthen freedoms of expression and organization in Turkey and the right to a fair trial as part of a Human Rights Action Plan while emphasizing that the ultimate goal of the plan is to build a new constitution.

Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TİHEK) has fined an apartment manager 1,000 Turkish Liras ($162) for discrimination after he urged residents of the apartment building not to rent their flats to students living without their families or bachelors.

Some 130,000 couples are getting divorced ever year and this is "terror," the head of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey, Süleyman Arslan, has said.