Spouse of missing educator appeals to Kyrgyz president to find her husband
Reyhan İnandı, the wife of Turkish-Kyrgyz educator Orhan İnandı, appealed to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on Thursday to find her husband, who went missing...
Journalist Hakkı Boltan should not go to prison for exercising his freedom of speech,...
Journalist Hakkı Boltan, who was sentenced to prison on charges of insulting government officials, should not go to prison for exercising his freedom of...
Turkey included on US list of countries implicated in use of child soldiers: report
The United States on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that have been implicated in the use of child soldiers over the...
Family of missing Kurdish woman starts sit-in at Tunceli courthouse
The family of Gülistan Doku, a young Kurdish woman who went missing on January 5, 2020, started a sit-in on Thursday in front a...
Turkey sets clock back 10 years on women’s rights, says Amnesty International
Turkey has set the clock back 10 years on women's rights by withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention and has also set a “terrifying precedent,”...
Turkish Parliament receives proceedings against 20 MPs including opposition leader
The Turkish Parliament has received summaries of proceedings to remove the parliamentary immunity of 20 opposition lawmakers including the leader of the main opposition...
Turkey’s top court says jailed former lawmaker’s rights were violated
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker and...
LGBTQ+ inmate raped, beaten and threatened in Turkey’s Eskişehir Prison
Memiş Akbaş, a LGBTQ+ man incarcerated in Eskişehir Prison, was raped, beaten and threatened, according to a recent report by the Association of Civil...
Turkey using press accreditation to pressure critical journalists: RSF
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Turkey’s Presidential Directorate for Communications (CİB) for using press accreditation to increase pressure on the media.
The directorate has...
OECD calls on Turkey to implement key reforms to boost fight against foreign bribery
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Working Group on Bribery has called on Turkey to urgently implement key reforms to boost the fight...
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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
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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...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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