Turkey’s top court says rights of journalist Ahmet Altan not violated
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that no rights violation took place in the re-imprisonment of prominent writer and journalist Ahmet Altan after the court...
Leukemia patient arrested on trumped-up terrorism charges develops additional health problems in prison
Yasin Akaslan, 41, a bookstore manager who was arrested in March 2020 for alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement and sent to central Turkey's...
COVID-19 continues to spread in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit Turkey’s overcrowded prisons hard, with news of new infections coming from Hilvan Prison in the southeastern city of...
Claims of medical trials on inmates as they receive no-name tablets
Yasin Solmaz, a former Turkish Air Force officer, said in a letter to his lawyer that he and 43 other inmates who contracted COVID-19...
Purge victim claims his fields were set on fire in apparent hate crime
Celallettin Tokmak, a former teacher who was summarily dismissed from his job with a government decree, said his fields were set on fire in...
Kurdish man feared abducted by Turkish intelligence turns up in detention after 45 days
Bahtiyar Fırat, a Kurdish man who had been missing since October 14, has re-emerged in detention at the organized crimes bureau of the İstanbul...
Police officer accused of torturing former air force commander gets promoted
Elif Uzun Sümercan, a previous deputy chief of the Ankara Police Department’s counterterrorism unit who was accused of torturing former commander of the Turkish...
Turkey’s judicial council rewards judges and prosecutors for their role in gov’t-led prosecutions
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Friday named 11 judges and prosecutors, many of whom played critical roles in government-led prosecutions, as...
Columnist’s hate campaign against inmate with cancer ends in his death
Radical Islamist Turkish daily Yeni Akit columnist Mehtap Yılmaz’s hate campaign targeting cancer patient Ümit Gökhasan and his release from prison delayed the medical...
Turkish authorities should stop harassing Mesopotamia News Agency and release detained reported Dindar Karataş:...
Turkish authorities should stop harassing journalists working for the Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) and immediately release reporter Dindar Karataş, who was arrested on November...
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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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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...