Alleged prime coup suspect in Turkey requests help of army chief in proving innocence
Retired Gen. Akın Öztürk, a former commander of the air forces and one of the alleged leaders of a failed coup attempt on July...
CHP applies to ECtHR demanding cancellation of referendum results in Turkey
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is applying to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for cancellation of the results of a...
Detention warrants issued for 121 over alleged Gülen links
Detention warrants have been issued for 121 people in the central Turkish provinces of Kayseri and Konya over their alleged links to the Gülen...
Interior Ministry: 39 detained in one week due to social media posts in Turkey
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 39 people were detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on...
BfV: MİT is after Turkish dissidents in Germany
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is collecting intelligence on Turkish dissidents and the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Germany, according to the...
Health of two educators on hunger strike in Turkey worsening
The health of two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on a hunger strike for 118 days to protest their dismissal...
Former Zaman columnist sentenced to 50 months in jail for threatening Erdoğan
An İstanbul court on Tuesday handed down a prison sentence of four years, two months to former Zaman daily columnist Mümtaz’er Türköne on charges...
Turkey’s justice minister says Gülen followers take Christian names in order to infiltrate Western...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Monday that followers of Gülen movement, change their Turkish names in order to infiltrate into the institutions...
Report: Syrian women in Turkey’s refugee camps forced into prostitution
Syrian women who had to fled from their war-torn country to Turkey with their families have been forced into prostitution in the refugee camps, which...
Turkish court bars HDP deputy Yıldırım from politics and sentences to prison
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Ahmet Yıldırım has been sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison by...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression,” which reveals how...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
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...