Large percentage of women do not feel safe alone at night, says TurkStat report
A total of 27.3 percent of women living in Turkey do not feel safe on the street at night, according to a 2020 report...
Turkey sentences founding member of Kurdish women’s association to more than 7 years in...
A Diyarbakır court has sentenced Narin Gezgör, a founding member of the Rosa Women’s Association, a Kurdish women’s rights group, to seven years, six...
İstanbul mayor faces probe for ‘disrespecting’ Mehmed the Conqueror
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu over allegations that he disrespected Mehmed the Conqueror by clasping his hands behind...
Turkish treasury and finance minister says women too ‘fragile’ to do manual labor jobs
Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati on Tuesday said in a discriminatory remark that women were more fragile than men and should not...
Turkish mother reveals the effects of government’s post-coup purge on their family
A Turkish mother revealed on a YouTube channel that her child did not recognize his father, who had been jailed for alleged links to...
97,721 women tried on terrorism charges, 23,000 dismissed from civil service in Turkey since...
A total of 97,721 women were tried on charges of terrorism and 23,202 women have been dismissed from the civil service since a July...
Turkish gov’t seizes pension of jailed media executive Hidayet Karaca
The pension of jailed media executive Hidayet Karaca was confiscated by the Turkish government, his son Sıdkı Karaca said in a tweet yesterday.
“All of...
Opposition MP accuses justice ministry of lying about mistreatment, torture in Turkish prisons
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has accused Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ of lying about mistreatment and...
Severely disabled Kurdish inmate dies in prison 10 days before release
A Kurdish inmate with severe disabilities in a prison in eastern Elazığ province died 10 days before he was due to be released, the...
Turkey to deport couple facing execution in Iran
Turkish authorities have decided on the deportation of an Iranian Kurdish couple despite the fact that they face execution in Iran for having taken...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...