Female teacher who lost sanity under detention remains jail despite doctors’ reports
Tuğba Y., a teacher who lost her sanity due to alleged torture during weeks of interrogation, was arrested and has been kept in prison...
Hurriyet daily’s editor-in-chief Ergin dismissed over controversial headline
Hurriyet daily's editor-in-chief Sedat Ergin was dismissed by Doğan Media Group in wake of reactions and controversies over the daily's headline reporting “The ...
COMMENTARY — Turkish government claims one-third of its diplomats are terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish foreign ministry has branded one third of its diplomats as terrorists by merely an executive decision without any judicial process...
New revelation: Military, intel chiefs met for 6 hours the day before coup attempt
While many questions about what happened on the day and night of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey persist, it was recently revealed...
Sock company with $50 million turnover transferred to TMSF due to Gülen links
One of the five largest sock companies in Turkey, Akın Çorap, which has an annual turnover of $50 million, has been transferred to Turkey’s...
Die Welt reporter Yücel arrested over stories on Erdoğan’s son-in-law
German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel, who was detained in Turkey on Feb. 14 as part of an investigation for publishing stories...
Investigation launched into Hürriyet daily due to report on army-gov’t ties
The Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the Hürriyet daily over a report published in the daily on Saturday in...
HDP deputy Ayhan released after a brief detention
As a government-led crackdown on Kurdish politicians continue, one more deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been detained on terror charges....
855 detained, 48 arrested in anti-Gülen operations in one week
A total of 855 people were detained, with 48 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past...
SCF report on the Netherlands decodes Erdoğan’s long arm in Europe
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to abroad using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and front NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...
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Turkey's political opposition faced intensifying pressure in 2025, with the judiciary emerging as the primary instrument for targeting dissenting voices. The most far-reaching measures...
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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...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: 2025 in Review
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.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...