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...
Germany blocks arms sales to Turkey 11 times over human rights concerns
The German government has blocked weapons deliveries to Turkey for 11 times since the beginning of 2016 out of fears that the weapons could...
Turkey leads world again in Twitter censorship
Twitter’s latest government transparency report has revealed the extent of the Turkish government crackdown on social media, once again making the country the leader...
Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’
At a time when Turkey ranks the first among a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep...
Suspicious deaths and suicides on the rise in Turkey with 54 people in last...
Against the background of massive crackdown on critics and opponents in Turkey and widespread torture practices in detentions and prisons, 54 people were reported...
Court bans access to column after pro-Erdoğan media owner complains
A Turkish court has banned online access to a column by Ceren Sözeri that had been published in the Evrensel daily last year after...
Gov’t critics abroad fear persecution, stay away from Turkish consulates
The German daily Die Welt has documented the cases of harassment by Turkish consulate officials against certain opposition groups: The Gülen movement, Kurds and...
Turkey among Muslim countries electronic devices in direct flights banned by US and UK
The US announced late on Monday that electronic devices larger than a mobile phone will be prohibited in the passenger cabin on flights from...
21-year-old student jailed after his ‘no’ video goes viral ahead of referendum
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Twenty-one-year-old university student Ali Gül was arrested days after a video he appeared in as part of a “No” campaign went viral in the...
Arrest warrant issued for journalists over exposing Dink’s murderer with Turkish flag
As six suspects, including a journalist, were detained in Samsun on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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