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...
Hundreds of thousands lost their jobs in Turkey-Syria earthquake: ILO
Hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria have lost their livelihoods due to the earthquake, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it...
Turkey records 844 coronavirus-related deaths in last 5 months
Turkey has recorded 252,945 COVID-19 infections and 844 virus-related deaths in the last five months, the Evrensel daily reported, citing data from the Health...
Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report
Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials.
European law enforcement officials, speaking...
Mother of 2 pushed back from Greece arrested on Gülen charges
A mother of two was arrested on Tuesday to serve a sentence on conviction of “terrorist organization membership” after being pushed back from Greece,...
Opposition media under fire for supporting AKP’s psychological warfare on election night
Turkey’s pro-opposition media outlets have come under fire on social media for allegedly providing support to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) psychological...
Vast majority of Syrians in Turkey working without insurance, say migration experts
The vast majority of Syrian migrants in Turkey are working in jobs that provide no insurance or benefits, according to migrations experts.
Turkey, under its...
Recent ÇHD report reveals improper practices in new maximum security prisons
Inmates in new maximum-security prisons in Turkey are being forced into solitary confinement in violation of the relevant regulations, the Bianet daily reported.
The Progressive Lawyers’ Association...
ECtHR faults Turkey for detention of media executive Karaca
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey in the case of Hidayet Karaca, a prominent journalist and the former chief executive...
Grup Yorum concert for ‘quake solidarity’ cancelled by local authorities
Folk music band Grup Yorum has said on Twitter that a concert scheduled to take place on July 7 in İstanbul’s Sultangazi district was...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...