Thousands of Turkish citizens seek asylum in US through Mexico: report
Some 33,000 Turkish citizens fleeing Turkey have entered the United States via the Mexican border over the past 18 months and are trying to...
Disabled girl forced to leave special needs school due to father’s links to Gülen...
Nurefşan Ketenci, 16, a young girl with major disabilities who had been forced to leave a public special needs school in Turkey because her...
Turkish court arrests 24 workers for protesting İstanbul airport construction conditions
A Turkish court on Wednesday arrested 24 workers for going on strike to protest deaths and working conditions on the construction site of İstanbul’s...
Covert deal hints Sweden traded release of Swedish reporter for crackdown on exiled Turkish...
Sweden may have quietly agreed to disrupt the activities of Turkish journalists living in exile within its borders in exchange for the release of...
Police prevent Trans Pride March in İstanbul’s Taksim, briefly detain 10
Turkish police prevented LGBTI+ people from holding a demonstration in İstanbul’s Taksim Square on Sunday and briefly detained 10 of the participants based on a...
Rights organizations condemn racist attack against Kurdish family in Konya
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Turkey Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) on Saturday condemned what they described as a horrifying racist attack against...
Turkish television watchdog fines TV channel due to smoker, alcoholic cat character
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined the Kanal D television channel for airing a Turkish animation movie “Şerafettin the Bad Cat,”...
21 women killed by men, 20 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Twenty-one women were murdered by men in Turkey in May and another 20 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Turkey investigates social media posts on possible refugee riots similar to France
Turkish prosectors are investigating social media messages posted by Turkish politicians, journalists and commentators discussing the possibility of a refugee riot in the country...
New warden pressuring inmates with arbitrary restrictions in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison, families claim
Kahraman Topaloğlu, the new warden of a notorious prison in İstanbul’s Silivri district, is imposing arbitrary restrictions in order to put psychological pressure on...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
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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...