Conscientious objectors given 10 months jail time for refusing military service
A Turkish military court has sentenced conscientious objectors Onur Erden and Uğur Gültekin 10 months for jail term over the fact that they have...
Turkish TV stations air 470 hours of live Erdoğan, AKP speeches in past 20...
A report prepared by the Unity for Democracy Initiative (DİB) has concluded that national TV stations across Turkey broadcast live speeches by Turkey's autocratic...
Erdoğan alleges no democracy or freedoms in Germany, Switzerland and Belgium
As tension between European countries and Ankara over a ban on referendum campaign rallies conducted by Turkish ministers persists, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
2 journalists released after spending 9 days in detention
Journalist Emrah Erdoğan and Dihaber reporter Hayri Demir, who were detained on March 16, were released on Friday after they were held in police...
Detention warrants issued for 93 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Courts in İstanbul and Ankara issued detention warrants on Friday for a total of 93 people, including 33Capital Markets Board (SPK) employees, as part...
Number of Turks seeking asylum in Greece rises fivefold since 2014
The number of Turkish citizens seeking asylum in Greece has increased fivefold since 2014 as a total of 236 Turks have applied for asylum...
Switzerland opens probe into allegations of spying on Turkish community
Switzerland has launched a criminal investigation into possible foreign spying on the country’s Turkish community, federal prosecutors said on Friday, according to Reuters.
The Swiss...
11 migrants drown when boat sinks off Turkish coast
Eleven people, including five children, died and four are missing after a boat carrying 22 migrants sank off the Aegean coastal town of Kuşadası...
Doctor jailed due to alleged Gülen links dies of heart attack in prison
Ali Özer, a 48-year-old doctor who was jailed due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has died of a heart attack...
Baby with Down syndrome suffers major health problems in absence of jailed parents
Ayşe Sena Bunlu, a 15-month-old baby with Down syndrome, has been suffering from serious health problems ever since her parents, both of whom are...
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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...