Turkish teacher Çabuk arrested by Georgian court upon Turkish government’s request
Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a Turkish teacher with a valid Georgian residence permit, was sent to prison by a Tbilisi court hours after he was detained...
US House Foreign Affairs Committee approves resolution condemning Turkey over Washington violence
US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution condemning Turkey over the violence against peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence on May 16,...
Report: German intelligence says Manchester bomber flew from Turkey before attack
Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber who killed 22 in the Manchester terrorist attack, travelled to Britain from Turkey just four days before the...
Turkey’s Erdoğan meets with EU top officials, France’s Macron, Germany’s Merkel in Brussels
Following a months-long war of words between Ankara and Brussels, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday met with European Commission President Jean-Claude...
Socialist Solidarity magazine’s editor Kartal sent behind bars in Turkey
Socialist Solidarity magazine’s managing editor and a former member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) party council Sezgin Kartal was arrested on Thursday...
PACE concerned over lack of domestic remedy for purge victims in Turkey
Two rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic...
Turkish gang leader Peker given ‘most benevolent businessman’ award by Milliyet daily
Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been given the “most benevolent businessman” award...
Coup suspect colonel says he received order from Gen. Aksakallı to act against a...
One of the suspects in an ongoing trial into a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 Col. Fırat Alakuş, has said he received...
Dozens of people from various professions new victims of Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt
Dozens of people from various professions and provinces in Turkey were detained or arrested as part of Turkish government's post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting...
70-year-old Kemal Gün ends hunger strike after getting son’s remains on 90th day of...
Kemal Gün, a 70-year-old man who was on a hunger strike to get the remains of his son, a militant of the far-left Revolutionary...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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.
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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...