107 Kurdish politicans, activists receive record prison sentences in KCK case
In the scope of the The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) main trial, which was held at Diyarbakır 2nd Heavy Penal Court for 8 years,...
Halkbank’s Deputy CEO Arrested For Conspiring To Evade US Sanctions Against Iran And Other...
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, Deputy CEO of state largest lender Halkbank, was arrested by the agents of Federal Information Bureau (FBI) at John F. Kennedy...
Turkish PM warns EU on referendum: Mind your own business
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Tuesday that Europe should not interfere in a referendum on April 16 that will expand Turkey's already...
Hunger strike of prisoners in İzmir’s Şakran prison on 42nd day
As the hunger strike launched in İzmir's Şakran Prison has reached to its 42nd day, the families have warned that the prisoners on hunger strike...
HDP sends a letter to int’l press bodies on media embargo applied to the...
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Co-Chair Saruhan Oluç has written a letter to the national and international media organizations regarding the grave media...
Animal husbandry, street vendor last resorts for Turkish teachers dismissed in post-coup purge
M.Ö., a school counselor for 11 years, is now earning his living on animal husbandry as he was dismissed as part of a post-coup...
Zarrab hires Trump ally for defense, prosecutor objects due to conflict of interest
Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was arrested in Miami last year for violating US sanctions on Iran hired former mayor of New...
Israel issues terror attack warning for Turkey, Egypt
Israel National Anti-Terror Bureau on Monday issued an immediate security warning for Israeli tourists in Egypt’s Sinai and Turkey against danger of an immediate terror attack...
Neighborhood head who did not attend Erdoğan rally removed from post
A muhtar, elected head of neighborhood head, was replaced with a trustee after he did not attend the really of Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
Işık University fires two academics for signing peace petition
Işık University in İstanbul fired academics Sinan Birdal and Prof. Dr. Neşe Yıldıran after they refused to remove their support from a petition signed...
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Turkey both home to and perpetrator of transnational repression: report
The Orion Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.,-based think tank, has published a report that found Turkey as both a perpetrator and a destination of...
Turkey unable to implement its own laws: annual human rights report
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has introduced its annual report covering human rights violations in 2022, which it presented as evidence of Turkey’s inability...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has released its latest report, “Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey,” a study that...
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...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...