Letter from female prisoner reveals systematic punishment in Turkish jail
A letter of a female prisoner in Tarsus T-type closed prison has revealed the systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture in Turkish jails. According...
Former ECtHR judge: Identical uniforms for Turkey’s coup suspects against human rights
Former European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judge Rıza Türmen has said obligating all suspects in ongoing trials concerning a controversial coup attempt last...
Turkey’s daily Cumhuriyet fires columnist Nuray Mert over ideological differences
Academic Nuray Mert has been fired from the Cumhuriyet daily, for which she has been writing columns since April 2015, for not complying with...
AKP teaches Turkish children jihad and politics at Mersin summer camp
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing is giving children below the age of 18 education in jihad and politics at a...
Top court: Turkey jails 2,431 judges, prosecutors, dismisses 4,424 since coup
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 2,431 judges and prosecutors and dismissed 4,424 others since a controversial military coup attempt on July...
CHP deputy: New intel organization formed for profiling Erdoğan opponents in Turkey
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan said on Wednesday that a newly established intelligence organization under the Turkish Presidency...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan deliberately thwarts Parliament inquiries about ISIL in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) government not only protects jihadist groups including Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants from the wrath...
Properties of 4 Turkish media outlets seized from gov’t critic up for sale
Properties belonging to four of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by...
Malaysia complains to Turkey for deporting suspected militants without warning
Malaysia has protested Turkey’s deportation of several suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants to Malaysia without warning, Reuters reported on...
Erdoğan: Kılıçdaroğlu will pay for warning German tourists against travel to Turkey
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed the country's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday for his recent remarks...
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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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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
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