New York Times calls US to move nuclear weapons from Turkey
Influential American daily the New York Times has called the US administration in an editorial article, written on the behalf of the Editorial Board,...
OSCE calls on Turkey to urgently release Cumhuriyet journalists
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Monday called on Turkey to release Cumhuriyet...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş: Europe has abandoned Turkey’s democratic forces
Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who has been behind bars since November 2016 and is running as...
US lawmakers propose halting weapons sales to Turkey
A $717 billion annual US defense policy bill, whose details were released on Friday, includes a measure to temporarily halt weapons sales to Turkey.
According...
6 Turks illegally sent home from Kosovo on orders from Erdoğan: report
The Kosovar intelligence service illegally deported six Turkish citizens on orders that likely came from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan through Kosovar President Hashim...
About 100 Turkish-Dutch citizens barred from leaving Turkey
About 100 Dutch citizens have reportedly been blocked from leaving Turkey after criticizing the country’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Those affected are of Turkish descent...
Report: German intelligence says Manchester bomber flew from Turkey before attack
Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber who killed 22 in the Manchester terrorist attack, travelled to Britain from Turkey just four days before the...
Turkey seeks extradition of journalist in exile reporting on gov’t corruption
Turkey’s Justice Ministry is seeking the extradition of an investigative journalist living in exile in Germany from where he reports extensively on the Turkish...
Award given to exiled Turkish journalist for story on victim of post-coup torture taken...
A journalism award granted to exiled Turkish journalist Bülent Ceyhan for a story about a teacher who died due to torture while in pretrial...
Turkey’s opposition leader on Zarrab case: Corruption is not a national issue
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım over a case against Reza Zarrab, saying...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...