CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...
COMMENTARY — Did Turkey’s intel have anything to do with a bomb attack on...
By Abdullah Bozkurt & Ahmet Dönmez
A suicide bombing attack aboard a civilian passenger jet in Mogadishu on Feb 2, 2016 that forced the plane...
Four Turks deported from Saudi Arabia sent to jail in Turkey over donations to...
An Ankara court sent to jail 4 out of 16 Turkish nationals who were deported back to home from Saudi Arabia as part of...
30 detained over support to Turkey’s post-coup hunger strikers
At least 30 people detained after police intervention into a group, gathered to read a press statement in solidarity with Kemal Gün, Nuriye Gülmen and...
Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence
A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including the one on Jesus Christ have been...
CoE’s Muižnieks expresses dismay at conviction of activist Çelikkan in Turkey
Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) commissioner for human rights has voiced his disappointment over a court decision on Monday to hand down...
Reactions mount to assault of Erdoğan protestors by Turkish security
Turkish security officials were part of an assault on demonstrators protesting outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence on Tuesday according to two law enforcement sources,...
Indictment against Turkish comedian Demirci accepted by Ankara court
An Ankara court on Wednesday accepted an indictment against Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci, who was arrested in August 2016 over his alleged links with...
Turkey’s main opposition leader says expelled educators on hunger strike being forced to die
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has broken his silence about two educators who went on a hunger strike...
DC Police to pursue charges for violence involving Erdoğan’s bodyguards
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The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., has issued a statement on a physical altercation that took place outside the Turkish Embassy on Tuesday...
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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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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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...
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.
In recent years...