Ex-spy chief reveals messaging data that served as grounds for mass arrests was obtained...
Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s former intelligence chief and current foreign minister, revealed in an interview on Monday that controversial data from the ByLock messaging app...
Turkey to deport 2 Kurdish journalists back to Iran, putting their lives at risk
Two Kurdish journalists from Iranian Kurdistan are facing imminent deportation from Turkey to Iran, where they fear for their lives, Turkish Minute reported on...
Turkey begins trial of 5 former MPs from pro-Kurdish party over Kobani protests
A Turkish court on Tuesday began to hear the trial of five former lawmakers from a pro-Kurdish party over their alleged role in violent...
Kurdish man who questioned ‘transferred’ voters on election day indicted
A Kurdish man who questioned voters who were allegedly “transferred” to his city of residence in the southeastern province of Şırnak on the day...
Panel discusses Turkey’s dire human rights situation on sidelines of UN meeting
A panel of experts on Monday tackled Turkey’s human rights record on the occasion of the 56th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights...
DEM Party mayors face travel bans imposed without court orders
Nine co-mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) have been banned from leaving Turkey without the issuance of court orders,...
Turkey records 8 femicides in 2 days
A total of eight women were allegedly killed by their family members over the last two days, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Monday.The accused...
PEN Int’l calls on Turkey to drop charges against sociologist in exile
PEN International has said Turkish authorities should drop all charges against prominent sociologist and PEN Turkey member Pınar Selek over a deadly 1998 explosion...
Turkish court releases 6 May Day demonstrators from pre-trial detention
An İstanbul court on Friday decided to release six of the dozens of demonstrators who were put in pre-trial detention for attempting to defy...
German man released from prison in Turkey after serving 6 years on terror charges
Patrick Kraicker, a 35-year-old German citizen, has been released from a prison near Ankara after serving more than six years on a terrorism-related conviction,...
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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...