Turkish court sentences jailed HDP deputy co-chair Tuğluk to 1,5 years in prison
A Turkish court in the western province of Kocaeli has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 1,5 years...
Turkish military to be ideologically transformed with 8,565 dismissals, 43,000 new recruits
Turkish government has put the plan into the practice to transform the Turkish Armed Forces ideologically by dismissing 8,565 personnel, including more than 150 generals,...
Report: 409 women killed, 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017
A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will...
İYİ Party’s Akşener: Pro-Erdoğan civilians receiving weapons training in camps in Turkey
İYİ (Good) Party Chairperson Meral Akşener has claimed (pro-Erdoğan) civilians have been receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat...
Turkish FM says judiciary told to speed up indictment of German journalist Yücel
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Monday that the Turkish government was encouraging the judiciary to speed up an indictment against German journalist...
Turkish gov’t detained 493 people last week, 62,895 in 2017 over alleged links to...
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 493 people were detained last week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement bringing the...
AKP’s Metiner calls former Turkish President Gül ‘political dog of putschists’
Following Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s strong verbal attack on former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a...
Lawyer under investigation, accompanied by infant, put in pretrial detention by Turkish gov’t
An İstanbul lawyer, identified only by the initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her 3-month-old baby as part of an investigation into...
Turkish PM declares all critics of controversial decree ‘coup plotters’
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Sunday strongly criticized people who have condemned a new state of emergency decree that gives immunity to civilians...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls former President Gül a “troublemaker”
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday continued to lambaste former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a...
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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.
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