FM Maas says German companies hesitant to risk investing in Turkey
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that German companies are hesitant to risk investing in Turkey and added...
Qatar repotedly deports 45 Turkish nationals over alleged links to Gülen movement
Pro-government Sabah daily claimed on Saturday that 45 Turkish nationals were deported from Qatar for having alleged links to the Gülen movement. The daily said...
Three US senators move to block F-35 transfers to Turkey over deteriorating democracy
Three US senators introduced a measure on Thursday aimed at blocking the transfer of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Turkey, a NATO...
High-profile Twitter accounts hacked by Erdoğanist hackers
Thousands of Twitter accounts, including high profile ones belonging to users such as Forbes, Amnesty International, the BBC’s North American service, and tennis star...
Investigative journalist reporting from exile targeted by pro-Erdoğan daily
Cevheri Güven, an investigative journalist in exile whose videos on YouTube in which he talks about the Turkish government’s corruption and murky relations attract...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels used child soldiers, pro-government think tank report reveals
Some 4 percent of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army’s (SNA) ranks comprised child soldiers in the years prior to early 2020, according to a...
Fraud by Turkish gov’t reported in spending EU’s financial aid for Syrian refugees
Agreements for projects that have been financed by the European Union as part of a refugee deal with Turkey have been broken and the...
Widespread or systematic imprisonment of individuals with alleged links to Gülen movement may constitute...
Widespread or systematic imprisonment of individuals with alleged links to the Gülen movement may constitute crimes against humanity, said the UN Human Rights Council’s...
US has ‘concerns’ about Turkey holding fair elections under state of emergency
The United States said on Thursday it had concerns about Turkey’s ability to hold free and fair elections given an ongoing state of emergency,...
Turkish court sentences teacher Duman, abducted by MİT from Malaysia, to 18 years in...
Alaettin Duman, a Turkish teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Kuala Lumpur in 2016...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
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