Criminal complaint against US ambassador in Turkey alleges involvement in failed coup
Ahmet Kabadayı, president of the National Unity and Fraternity Federation (MBKF), a pro-government Turkish NGO, has filed a criminal complaint against departing US Ambassador...
Turkish gov’t purges more than 22,000 from police force following coup attempt
Yılmaz Çolak, president of Turkey’s Police Academy, said on Friday that more than 22,000 police officers had been dismissed from the job as part...
Senior legislative reporter Habib Güler jailed in Turkey over tweets quoting Rumi
A senior legislative reporter who covered Turkey’s main opposition party for years have been behind bars for 442 days in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison...
Turkey’s Erdoğan: We don’t need European Union
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said on Friday that Turkey "does not need the European Union," amid a number of disagreements between...
24 PACE members urge Turkey to release jailed deputies immediately
Twenty-four members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 16 countries and 5 political groups has issued a written statement...
Bookstore bombing suspects released by Turkish court
The Van 1st High Criminal Court during a retrial ruled for the release of noncommissioned officers Özcan İldeniz and Ali Kaya and outlawed Kurdistan...
Pro-gov’t Turkish daily claims jailed US pastor knew about coup attempt 6 years ago
The pro-government Yeni Asır daily claimed on Thursday that it had acquired an audio recording in which American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been...
Washington Post: Erdoğan devoted half the 90-minute conversation with US ex-VP Biden to Zarrab’s...
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had demanded Reza Zarrab's (a Turkish-Iranian gold dealer who is about to go on trial on money-laundering and fraud charges...
Turkish gov’t detains former pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Zenderlioğlu
Turkish government has detained Hüsamettin Zenderlioğlu, a former deputy from pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) at İstanbul's Atatürk Airport on his return from abroad...
COMMENTARY — Turkey has stolen the future of a medical student from Uganda
By Abdullah Bozkurt
We often focus on high-profile cases such as those involving lawmakers, journalists and human rights defenders in the Turkish government’s unprecedented persecution...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
Throughout the year human rights organizations...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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