AKP gov’t cancelled 3,804 press cards in 5 years
Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has cancelled the press cards of 3,804 journalists over the past five years, according to Vice President...
Journalists in exile hold protest in Germany in support of jailed colleagues in Turkey
Journalists who fled a government crackdown in Turkey and took shelter in Germany held a protest over the weekend on the sidelines of a...
United Nations calls on Turkey to release 2 Gülen-linked individuals kidnapped from Malaysia
Turkey must release two men detained over suspected links to a cleric blamed for a 2016 coup attempt and pay them compensation for arbitrary...
Document reveals detention of 2,745 judicial members ordered a day after coup attempt
A document published by a Turkish journalist living in exile on Wednesday revealed that a public prosecutor in Ankara had sent a...
COMMENTARY – ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to...
Turkish prosecutor launches investigation into a 4-year-old girl
A Turkish prosecutor has launched a scandalous investigation into a 4-year-old Turkish girl in Erzurum province. According to an official document the Stockholm Center...
New report reveals unprecedented clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign reporters...
Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen
Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...
Jailed Turkish journalist Parıldak says she wants to destroy perception of her as a...
Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, a former Zaman daily reporter who was given seven years, six months in prison on charges of membership in a...
6,033 people taken to court over allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdoğan in 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed criminal complaints against 6,033 people in 2017 over alleged insults of him, with 2,099 of them sentenced by...
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Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Case of Senegal
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to the West African nation of Senegal, specifically targeting...
Clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
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Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign...
Free Thought under Siege in Turkey: the Crackdown on Education
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- Crackdown on education sector in Turkey victimized nearly 100,000 teachers and academics
The crackdown on critical thinking in Turkey with an unprecedented witch...
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
Kurdish political movement under crackdown in Turkey: The case of the HDP
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- New report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey
The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government...
Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case Of Norway
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- Erdoğan’s long arm reaches to Norway, targeting critics of Turkish government
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to Norway using...
Turkey Cracks Down On Health Care Professionals
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- New research shows Turkey’s purge destroyed lives of 21,000 health care workers
More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors,...
Tortured to Death: Holding Gökhan Açıkkollu’s Killers To Account
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- A new report uncovers a murder of detained teacher in Turkey due to torture
Deaths in detentions and prisons due to torture, abuse...
Abuse Of The Interpol System By Turkey
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- Turkey weaponised Interpol system to persecute critics, new study exposes
The Turkish government’s blatant abuse of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to...
Erdoğan’s Rule by Royal Decree: Turkey’s Contempt for The Rule of Law
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- New research decodes how Turkey brands law abiding & peaceful people as terrorists
The authoritarian government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s open contempt...