Hospital finds 78-year-old ailing Kurdish woman ‘fit to remain in prison’
A hospital in eastern Turkey has issued a report which said that Hanife Arslan, a 78-year-old woman suffering from several chronic health problems, is...
Rights organization files criminal complaint against far-right MP who threatened Turkish-Armenian lawmaker with genocide
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has filed a criminal complaint against far-right independent member of the Turkish Parliament Ümit Özdağ, who threatened Turkish-Armenian lawmaker...
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...
Turkish Embassy in Tirana spied on Erdoğan critics, describing them as ‘malignant cells’
The Turkish Embassy in Albania engaged in a campaign of intelligence gathering and profiling of critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, documents obtained by...
Erdoğan signals changes to structure of top courts
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with recent rulings by the country’s highest courts and signaled that he is pushing for...
Recent Israel-Palestine conflict triggers anti-Semitism in Turkey, raises concern among Jewish minority
The recent conflict in the Middle East has increased anxiety among Turkey's Jewish community, which has become the victim of increasing anti-Semitism and social...
Turkey again fires academic who signed peace petition
An appeals court in Turkey has ruled to remove from her job Mühdan Sağlam, an academic who was recently reinstated after initially being fired...
Kyrgyz school alumni offer $1 million reward for location of missing educator
The alumni of a prestigious network of schools in Kyrgyzstan whose president went missing on the evening of May 31 and is feared to...
UN working group finds rights violations in case of air force cadet sentenced to...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has concluded that Turkish air force cadet Cihangir Çenteli’s trial and subsequent aggravated life imprisonment on...
US ‘concerned’ about reports of educator missing in Kyrgyzstan
The US State Department is “concerned” by reports that the founder of the Sapat school network, Orhan İnandı, has been reported missing in Kyrgyzstan,...
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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.
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