Turkey’s MİT abducts Veysel Akçay, general director of schools affiliated with Gülen movement, in...
Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation...
Pro-Erdoğan TV channel to be established in Germany with Turkish Embassy’s help
An Internet television channel called Z-23, which will promote Turkey's autocraticPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Germany, is...
Greek court turns down new extradition request for Turkish officers
A Greek court on Wednesday blocked a second request by Turkey for the extradition of soldiers who fled to Greece in July after a...
Pro-gov’t Turkish satire magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry
Pro-government Turkish satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ultranationalist ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)...
Erdoğan’s long arm targets critics, stirs up troubles in Sweden
Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
EU’s Hahn says urgent need for negative trend in Turkey to be reversed
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Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, said on Tuesday that there is an urgent need for the negative trend...
Rutte’s spokesperson refutes PM Yıldırım, says ‘no apologies were made’
A spokesperson for the Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte has refuted the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım who said in a live TV interview on...
Kyrgyz hold vigil in hope of finding missing educator
Kyrgyz who have been protesting since the suspicious disappearance of an educator in the country held a silent vigil in Bishkek on Monday in...
Three Yezidi girls, left by ISIL in Turkey, handed over to their families in...
Three children from the Kurdish Yezidi community who were abducted by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in...
Turkish gov’t bars family of Uighur internment camp critic in China from entry to...
A critic of China’s Xinjiang internment camps who lives in Turkey has said his wife faces deportation to China after she and her son...
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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...