Turkey deepened rights crackdown, impunity in 2025: Amnesty International
Turkey saw worsening restrictions on human rights, mounting prosecutions of rights defenders, growing political pressure on the judiciary and a deepening culture of impunity...
Another LeMan magazine editor arrested over controversial cartoon
The top editor of Turkey’s satirical LeMan magazine has been arrested, media and lawyers said on Saturday, the latest arrest on accusations that the...
ECtHR notifies Turkey of 1,000 applications over Gülen movement convictions after landmark ruling
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has notified Ankara of 1,000 applications in its docket for convictions of Gülen movement membership over the...
No ruling from top court in case of maid found dead in AKP deputy’s...
Although it has been 27 months since an application was filed at Turkey’s Constitutional Court regarding the suspicious death of an Uzbek maid in...
PPJ’s Gök: Erdoğan allies with ultra-nationalists to set up judiciary to persecute dissidents
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allied with ultra-nationalists to purge thousands of judges and prosecutors and set up new courts to target dissidents, wrote Uğur...
Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate says there is immense political pressure in Turkey
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, said in an interview that there was immense political pressure in...
Malta Files reveal Turkish PM Yıldırım’s family enterprise is worth over 100 million euros
An investigation into Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s family enterprise, part of the European Investigative Collaborations’ (EIC) Malta Files, has revealed that his family...
Turkey’s largest media group Doğan sold to Demirören
The largest media company in Turkey, the Doğan Media Group, which has been harshly criticized for acting as a mouthpiece of the Turkish government...
World Psychiatric Association calls for immediate release of top doctor and human rights activist...
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) has called on the Turkish government to ensure the immediate release of the head of a leading doctors’ union...
Detention warrants issued for 15 at Air Forces Command over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 10 officers and five civilians at the Air Forces Command over their alleged links to the faith-based...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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