Turkish prosecutor demands up to 18 years imprisonment for pro-Kurdish HDP deputy
A Turkish prosecutor in Diyarbakir has demanded up to 18 years of imprisonment for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İmam Taşçıer over...
Turkish gov’t to sentence 24 Kurdish journalists up to 15-year jail term
Lawsuits have been filed against 24 Kurdish journalists who had been detained during a raid on August 28, 2016 on the office of Kurdish...
Turkish main opposition leader receives democracy award over his ‘March for Justice’
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is set to receive the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC) Democracy Award for...
Military officer candidate in Turkey asked about Qur’an and Gezi Protests
Amid criticism that Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a controversial coup attempt as an opportunity to turn NATO’s second biggest army into...
Turkish PM: We did not ask US for evidence of Sept. 11
Amid reports that Turkey may have offered $15 million to a former adviser of US President Donald Trump to illegally remove Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...
Barkey says Turkish FM undersecretary, embassy knew of Büyükada meeting
US academic Henri Barkey, who is being sought by a Turkish prosecutor for planning last year’s failed coup attempt during a secret meeting on...
Erdoğanist journalist: US soldiers, diplomats to be executed in case of 2nd coup attempt
The US soldiers and diplomats in Turkey and elsewhere will be executed by “revenge teams” in case of a second coup attempt in the...
Report: Two Turkish nationals, abducted from plane in Kazakhstan, returned to Turkey
Enver Kılıç and Zabit Kişi, the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September turn out to have been...
German theater group cancels İstanbul performance fearing arrest of staff by Turkish gov’t
The Berliner Schaubühne theater has scrapped an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Richard III in Istanbul, fearing arrest of its staff, on Tuesday.
“The arrests of...
Turkish gov’t detains 47 people in İzmir over alleged links to Gülen movement
Forty-seven people were detained on Saturday in İzmir as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement launched by the İzmir Chief Prosecutor’s...
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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...