Veteran journalist Ilıcak reflects on prison, political misjudgments after 2016 coup attempt
Veteran Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was jailed on terrorism-related charges in a mass crackdown following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016, has...
Turkish police torture two university personnel for weeks in Antalya over their alleged links...
Sedat Göçen and Ahmet Gödük, two former staff members of the International Antalya University, which was closed by a government decree issued under emergency...
Family breadwinner and mother of 2 detained for ‘financially aiding terrorism’
Menekşe Turen, a mother of two who became the sole financial provider of her family after her husband's arrest, was detained on Tuesday in...
Signature campaign launched for release of jailed journalist suffering from cancer
A signature campaign has been launched on the change.org website demanding the release of journalist Mevlüt Öztaş, who was diagnosed with cancer while in jail but...
Turkey fines Kurdish football club, bans player and arrests teenager over solidarity with Kurds...
Turkish football authorities fined the main Kurdish club and banned one of its players after a goal celebration in which the player made a...
Turkey Purge: 1,895 people detained, 992 people jailed in past 15 days over coup...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Woman serving sentence for conviction of Gülen links complains of insects and foul odors...
A mother of three who was arrested to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement told her family during a...
Police block Turkish lawyers marching to Ankara to protest gov’t meddling in bar associations
Turkish police stopped dozens of senior lawyers marching to the capital of Ankara on Monday to protest a bill governing the organization of bar...
CHP youth leader gets suspended sentence over post criticizing prosecutor
A Turkish court on Thursday handed down a suspended sentence of more than one year to Cem Aydın, head of the youth wing of...
338 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in a year: report
A total of 338 women in Turkey were murdered by men in the past 12 months, while 248 died under suspicious circumstances, Turkish Minute...
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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...
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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.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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