Large majority of Turks against accepting more refugees, poll suggests
More than 90 percent of Turks are against accepting more refugees amid a new and growing wave of Afghan migrants arriving in the country,...
Attacks on Syrian refugees, their properties intensify in Ankara on second day
Attacks on Syrian refugees, their houses, workplaces and cars by locals chanting anti-Syrian and fascist slogans continued for a second day in Ankara’s Altındağ...
Hate speech against Gülen movement escalates as pro-Erdoğan propagandist calls for extermination
Journalist Fatih Tezcan, a pro-Erdoğan propagandist, on Tuesday said on a live YouTube broadcast that followers of the Gülen movement should be massacred right...
Houses, workplaces owned by Syrian refugees attacked in Ankara
A group of locals attacked houses, workplaces and cars owned by Syrian refugees on Tuesday night in Ankara’s Altındağ district, the Evrensel daily reported.
The...
Opposition leader faces 2nd verbal attack after Erdoğan’s praise for first one
Turkey’s nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener came under verbal attack as she was addressing locals in Sivas province, the second attack...
Deputy mayor from Erdoğan’s party says opposition politicians need to be hanged
Navi Çokan, a deputy district mayor in southeastern Turkey, said in a Facebook post that the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is damned...
Erdoğan supporters discuss on Clubhouse how to exterminate political prisoners, suggest putting poison in...
Audio records of a chatroom on social media app Clubhouse reveal a conversation among supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on how to...
Prime suspect in murder of Kurdish family apprehended
The prime suspect in the murder of seven members of a Kurdish family who then tried to set the family’s house ablaze in the...
Armed groups set up checkpoints in Antalya amid rumors that wildfires were caused by...
Armed groups set up checkpoints in different parts of Antalya province amid rumors that wildfires ravaging the region were started by the outlawed Kurdistan...
Lawyer for Kurdish family massacred in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has...
Latest Reports
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Friday released its latest report, “Turkey's Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday released its latest report, “Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics,”...
Turkey’s Abuse of INTERPOL: How Erdoğan Weaponized the International Criminal Police Organization for Transnational...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has abused INTERPOL in a number of ways.
The Erdoğan government has...
Left Behind to Die: COVID-19 in Turkish Prisons and Discrimination Against Political Prisoners
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This report focuses on amendments made to the Law on the Execution of Sentences and Security Measures in order to decrease Turkey’s prison...
Turkey’s Judicial Council: Guarantor or Annihilator of Judicial Independence
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This report focuses on Turkey’s top judicial administrative body (HSK, previously HSYK) and the country’s judicial architecture. It provides an assessment of the...
Human rights in Turkey: 2020 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2020. Rising pressure on the...