Conscript convicted of involvement in failed coup says he has been robbed of his...
Hamza Yıldız, a young private in the Turkish military convicted of involvement in a failed coup in July 2016 and handed down nine life...
Council of Europe: Osman Kavala’s imprisonment is aimed at dissuading human rights defenders
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), the organization's statutory decision-making body, issued a statement on September 3, urging the Turkish...
Turkish parliament to amend law after Erdoğan’s call for suspension of lawyers accused of...
Turkey’s governing party has started working on an amendment to the law on lawyers following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s call on September 1 for...
Outrage boils over as ECHR president meets with Turkish President Erdoğan: report
President Róbert Ragnar Spanó met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential palace on Thursday, drawing backlash from critics, Turkish Minute reported.
Spanó...
UN Human Rights Council on death of Ebru Timtik : No one should have...
Special rapporteurs from the UN Human Rights Council in a statement issued on Wednesday condemned the preventable death of lawyer Ebru Timtik after a...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court denies release request of inmate with brain tumors and disabled son
Turkey’s Constitutional Court last week denied the request for release of Lütfi Koç (46), a political prisoner suffering from two brain tumors and a...
Jailed Kurdish leader not allowed to see his daughters
Jailed former Co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş was not allowed to see his daughters on Tuesday due to coronavirus-related...
European rights court president sparks criticism for considering acceptance of honorary degree from Istanbul...
President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Róbert Ragnar Spanó, who is expected to visit Turkey this week, prompted criticism after it...
Turkish Constitutional Court’s new mission is to ignore and legitimize unlawful acts, says jailed...
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan said in the aftermath of a coup attempt in 2016 the Turkish Constitutional Court...
Turkish navy’s elite special ops officer was brutally tortured by his former colleagues: report
Murat Fırat, a 41-year-old officer at the Turkish navy’s elite special forces unit, Underwater Offense (Su Altı Taarruz, or SAT), an equivalent of the...
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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...