Journalist indicted on charges of insulting Erdoğan due to criticism on TV
Turkish prosecutors have indicted a journalist on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan due to his criticism of the president on TV, Turkish...
6 convicted in Afghan refugee’s death, but rights groups slam lenient sentences
A Turkish court has convicted six people in connection with the death of an undocumented Afghan refugee, but human rights advocates have condemned the...
Civil servant abducted by Turkish intelligence forced to testify against opposition deputies while in...
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), said during budget talks on Friday that a man who was abducted and...
Turkish healthcare professionals call for medical neutrality in Ukraine
Eight medical organizations in Turkey have in a joint statement called for medical neutrality in Ukraine, referring to the principles of the Geneva Conventions,...
Top court to review rights defender, former MP Gergerlioğlu’s application on July 1
Turkey’s Constitutional Court will review an application submitted by rights defender and former MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu,...
136 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in the first half of this...
A total of 136 women were murdered by men in Turkey in the first six months of this year, while 114 died under suspicious...
Republicans slam NBA failure to support Kanter’s stance on China’s treatment of Uyghurs
A number of Republicans in the US Senate have expressed support for former Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom, an outspoken critic of human...
Police detain 6 journalists working for Kurdish media in western Turkey
Turkish special operations police on Tuesday morning detained six journalists, most of whom work for pro-Kurdish media outlets, in simultaneous raids in the western...
Man allegedly abducted by Turkish intel in İstanbul recounts details of torture
Gökhan Güneş, who returned home nearly a week after he was allegedly abducted by Turkish intelligence officers in broad daylight in İstanbul, has said...
Council of Europe’s CPT confirms continued ill-treatment and torture in Turkey
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) confirmed in two reports published on...
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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...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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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
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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...