Miss Turkey decrowned just hours after due to tweet on failed coup attempt
The winner of Miss Turkey 2017 was decrowned on Friday just hours after winning the beauty pageant, after a tweet she posted about the...
Controversial Turkish imam warns followers country will need cleansing of ‘traitors’ in YouTube sermon
Turkish imam Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü in a controversial YouTube sermon posted on Saturday warned his followers the country may need a cleansing of "traitors,"...
Former acting US Attorney complaints over attacks came from Turkey during Zarrab probe
Former acting US attorney in Manhattan Joon H. Kim, who oversaw the Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was convicted of helping orchestrate what...
Journalist detained while covering dispute during celebrations of Erdoğan election victory
Vedat Aker, a local journalist in Turkey’s eastern province of Batman, was detained while covering a dispute that erupted during celebrations of President Recep...
Gun violence surged by over 74 percent in Turkey in last 6 years: report
Incidents of gun violence in Turkey increased by 74.7 percent between 2015 and 2021, resulting in the death of 2,145 people last year, Turkish...
Kurdish journalists detained in police raids in southeastern Turkey
Journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut were detained on Sunday in police raids on their homes in southeastern Diyarbakir province, the Bianet news website...
Detention warrants issued for 102 in post-coup investigation against İstanbul stock exchange
Detention warrants were issued on Friday for 102 people as part of an investigation against the alleged sympathizers of the Gülen movement.
The operation targets...
UN slams Turkish government over widespread human rights violations
The United Nations’ annual human rights report, which was released in Geneva on Wednesday, has named Turkey as one of 50 countries in which human...
Parliament’s Human Rights Committee failing to do its job, says opposition MP
Human rights defender and deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has asked in a parliamentary question why the Turkish Parliament's...
SDF’s seizure of Tabqa reveals ISIL and al-Qaeda books published freely in Turkey
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have revealed following their capture of Syrian town of Tabqa that the ideological indoctrination material for The Islamic State of Iraq...
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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.
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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...
Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: 2025 in Review
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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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
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Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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