44 ASELSAN personnel arrested, 17 police detained over alleged Gülen links
Forty-four of 84 detained employees at Turkey’s largest defense electronics company ASELSAN were arrested in Ankara on Thursday over alleged Gülen movement links and...
35 lawyers of suspects in Gülen movement trials detained
Turkish police on Thursday detained 35 lawyers who are defending suspects accused of links to the Gülen movement in several ongoing trials.
Arrest warrants were...
A small American town flooded with angry phone calls amid Turkish-Dutch spat
The police department of the small American town of Rotterdam were surprised las week when one of their phone numbers suddenly received dozens of...
65-year-old grandmother looking after twin babies as mother, father in jail for 5 months
Twin daughters of the Istanbul-based Şengün family were handed over to their 65-year-old grandmother as both E. Şengün and his wife F. were arrested...
NASA scientist, jailed by Turkey, sees the sun just one hour a day
Serkan Gölge, a Turkish-born NASA scientist who was arrested as part of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown against perceived enemies, is now allowed to see the...
Belgian PM Michel calls to end Turkey’s accession negotiations with the EU
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said that Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was moving away European values and called for an end to Turkey's...
Graft prosecutor’s wife arrested over alleged ByLock use
Özlem Yüzgeç, the wife of one of the prosecutors who conducted a corruption probe that became public in late 2013 and implicated senior members...
UN’s Magazzeni: Deterioration of the human rights in Turkey ‘a cause for alarm’
United Nations (UN) Chief Representative Gianni Magazzeni said that the deterioration of the human rights situation in Turkey is “a cause for alarm” and...
Steinmeier slams Erdoğan, says he risks destroying everything achieved in Turkey
Germany's newly elected President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has slammed Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and said that he risks destroying everything Turkey has achieved...
Norway grants asylum to 4 Turkish officers, 1 military attaché
Norway has granted asylum to four Turkish officers and a military attaché who applied for asylum in the country in the aftermath of a...
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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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