Activists protest in Sweden for missing educator
Dozens of human rights activists gathered on Sunday in the southern Swedish city of Malmö to protest Ankara’s apparent sanctioning of enforced disappearances and...
255 people killed, 306 maltreated, tortured in Turkey in May: report
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in May included 255 deaths and 306 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 87 of them taking...
Turkey’s top court accepts indictment seeking to disband pro-Kurdish party
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Monday accepted an indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to disband a pro-Kurdish opposition party on terror-related charges, The Associated...
Police detain 6 during demonstration against Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Turkish police detained six people on Saturday who took part in a demonstration in support of the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE)...
Rapporteur asks top court to accept indictment seeking closure of HDP
A rapporteur from Turkey’s Constitutional Court has completed their examination of an indictment seeking the closure of a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey’s parliament and...
Turkish court acquits abused woman of murdering her husband, setting a precedent for spouses...
A recent trial in which a court found an abused woman had acted in self-defense in killing her husband is crucial in setting a...
Court declines to arrest policemen convicted of killing 15-year-old
A Turkish court has declined to arrest a police officer convicted of causing the death of Berkin Elvan during the anti-government Gezi Park protests...
Kyrgyz intel agency seized video recordings from café where İnandı was last seen, lawyer...
The Kyrgyzstan State Committee for National Security (GKNB) seized video recordings from a cafe where Orhan İnandı, who is allegedly being held against his...
Turkey exploits global fight against terrorism financing to target civil society: Amnesty
Turkey exploits measures prescribed by international watchdogs to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and countering the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass...
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 94 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 94 people including active duty military and police officers due to alleged links...
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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...
Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Case of Senegal
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to the West African nation of Senegal, specifically targeting members of the Gülen movement, using...
Clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
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Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign...
Free Thought under Siege in Turkey: the Crackdown on Education
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- Crackdown on education sector in Turkey victimized nearly 100,000 teachers and academics
The crackdown on critical thinking in Turkey with an unprecedented witch...
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
Kurdish political movement under crackdown in Turkey: The case of the HDP
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- New report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey
The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government...
Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case Of Norway
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- Erdoğan’s long arm reaches to Norway, targeting critics of Turkish government
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to Norway using...
Turkey Cracks Down On Health Care Professionals
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- New research shows Turkey’s purge destroyed lives of 21,000 health care workers
More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors,...