UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
Turkish Interior Ministry sentenced to pay TL 1 mln to man who lost eye...
An İstanbul court has ordered the Turkish Interior Ministry on Monday to pay over 1 million Turkish Liras in compensation to an academic who...
Turkey arrests ÇHD head Selçuk Kozağaçlı on terrorism charges
Turkey's Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) President Selçuk Kozağaçlı, who was detained on Nov. 8 in İstanbul, has been arrested by a court on charges...
Turkish lieutenant colonel recants testimony, says drugged and tortured
Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide-de-camp of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, on Monday recanted his previous testimony during a hearing at the...
Turkish police detain 10 people over social media messages
Ten people were detained on Monday morning in Ankara as part of an operation into social media launched by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office,...
Turkish gov’t detains 586 in one week over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 586 people have been detained in one week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkish court rules Altan brothers, Ilıcak, others to remain in jail
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Fevzi Yazıcı, who were arrested in September 2016 on...
Turkish actor Pekin and 8 others arrested over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish comedian and theater actor Ömer Pekin and 8 more actors, who were detained during operations across 14 provinces in an İzmir-based investigation targeting the...
President Erdoğan insults Kurds in Turkey over their fertility rate
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's controversial remarks on Friday about birth rates in Turkey in which he urged "Muslim" women to deliver more...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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...