Bundestag vice president submitted complaint to UNESCO regarding jailed journalist Altan: report
Claudia Roth, vice president of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), has submitted a communication to UNESCO under a special procedure that it says allows...
HDP party council member arrested at İstanbul airport to serve prison sentence
Pınar Aydınlar, party council member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who is also a famous folk singer, was arrested on Tuesday due...
Turkish police detain 24 protesters at Suruç commemoration events
The police detained 24 protesters in Ankara and İstanbul on Sunday during marches commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Suruç massacre of 2015, in...
Only 95 of 4,156 judges and prosecutors fired after coup in Turkey reinstated: report
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Thursday reinstated seven judges and prosecutors out of 4,156 who were dismissed following a coup attempt in...
Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Mavi Marmara victim’s wife: Erdoğan’s rally not for Jerusalem but for elections
A public rally being held in İstanbul today upon a call from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to condemn the violence that erupted after...
HRW raises alarm at Turkey’s embrace of Syrian groups accused of war crimes
Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns over Turkey's warm reception of two faction leaders from Syrian armed opposition groups accused of serious human rights...
19-month-old toddler accompanies mother serving 3-year prison sentence
Sevim Yıldırım, a Quran teacher who previously worked at Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), was accompanied by her 19-month-old toddler Mehmet Halil when she...
PACE urges Turkish Parliament not to adopt new restrictions on NGOs
Three Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteurs issued a statement on Monday saying they were deeply concerned about possible new restrictions...
Report: Maltreatment, torture in Turkish prisons continue unabated
A report prepared by the Prison Commission of the Platform for Free Lawyers (ÖHP) has revealed that torture, maltreatment and rights violations are continuing...
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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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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
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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...