Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 333 military officers over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants for 360 people and decided to confiscate their assets over their alleged links to the Gülen movement on...
Erdoğan rival hardens tone, courting Turkish nationalists
Turkey’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to send millions of migrants back home in a strident message aimed at winning the support of an ultranationalist...
Treasury transfers shares of public companies to Sovereign Wealth Fund
Turkey’s treasury shares in several public companies like Ziraat Bankası, Borsa İstanbul, and Turkish Petroleum (TP) have been transferred to the recently established the...
96 Refugee Workers Lost Their Lives in Turkey in 2016
A report by the Assembly of Worker Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) has indicated that at least 96 refugee workers lost their lives in...
Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputies Yıldırım and Ayhan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status over court rulings against...
France’s National Scientific Research Center freezes relations with Turkey’s TÜBİTAK
In the light of massive dismissals of scholars in Turkey from their positions, France’s National Scientific Research Center (CNRS)decided to freeze relations with Turkey’s...
Justice Ministry admits to overcrowding in Turkey’s prisons during pandemic
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has admitted in response to a petition submitted by an opposition deputy that overcrowding has occasionally occurred in some of Turkey’s...
Islamist deputy of Turkey’s ruling AKP: Syria to be 2nd Vietnam for America
Metin Külünk, a deputy of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the leadership of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has slammed the US...
Eight killed in land dispute in southeastern Turkey
At least eight people died in a shootout between two families fighting over prized agricultural land in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, Agence France-Presse reported, citing...
Mexico hails ‘heroic’ rescue dog that died in Turkey
Mexico on Monday paid tribute to a military rescue dog that died while searching for survivors buried under the rubble of the earthquake in...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
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