Pro-Turkey fighters kill 4 Syria Kurds celebrating Nevruz: rights group
Turkish-backed fighters shot at a family of Kurds celebrating the festival of Nevruz in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least four people, Agence...
Threats against women’s rights no longer a discussion for the AKP, says MP Özlem...
Özlem Zengin, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and notorious for discriminatory remarks against women critical of the Turkish government,...
Environmentalists warn the mishandling of earthquake debris poses threat to environment and public health
The Chamber of Environmental Engineers has warned that the incredible amount of debris from thousands of buildings that were demolished in earthquakes that struck...
47 detained across Turkey for helping families of people jailed over alleged Gülen links
Forty-seven people have been detained in an İzmir-based operation that was also conducted in İstanbul, Ankara, Samsun and Muğla provinces for helping the families...
State-owned bank declines application for earthquake assistance loan submitted by post-coup purge victim
Turkish state-owned Vakıfbank has declined the request of a former prosecutor who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
3 Turkish gendarmes detained over alleged killing of 2 Syrian refugees at border
Three Turkish gendarmes have been detained for the death of two Syrian refugees who were allegedly killed last week at the Turkey-Syria border, the...
US senators introduce bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act
Four members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Cardin of Maryland, and Republicans Marco Rubio...
58 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Fifty-eight people, including teachers, businessman, active duty and dismissed military officers and former cadets, have over the past week been detained on warrants issued...
Report reveals widespread discrimination of refugees in Turkey’s quake zone
Following massive earthquakes in southern Turkey last month, refugees in the quake zone – most of them Syrian – have been subjected to “multi-layered discrimination,”...
RSF calls on Turkish authorities to end censorship of earthquake coverage
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Turkish authorities to put an end to all obstacles to press freedom and to respect the investigative...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...