164 workers died in workplace accidents in Turkey in November, bringing yearly toll to...
A total of 164 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in November, bringing the death toll for the first 11 months of 2024...
Turkey’s Kurdish pupils struggle for access to language education amid repression: report
A Turkish government plan to address the conflict with Kurdish militants has renewed the focus on Kurdish rights, which Kurdish leaders say have eroded...
3 police officers, 1 doctor go on trial in southern Turkey in first post-coup...
Three police officers and a doctor accused of involvement in the torture of a former teacher in police custody are now standing trial in...
Main opposition leader visits Boğaziçi protestors, calls gov’t-appointed rector ‘occupier’
Özgür Özel, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), visited the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University to show solidarity with academics and students...
Veteran journalist faces up to 7.5 years in prison for ‘PKK propaganda’ in TV...
Turkish journalist Ayşenur Arslan, a veteran broadcaster and former presenter on the pro-opposition Halk TV, faces up to seven and a half years in...
Social media campaign urges release of purged military officer suffering from MS
Social media users are calling on Turkish authorities to release Mehmet Gürler, a former military officer suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis (MS), from prison.
The...
Police confiscate Nelson Mandela book and others, detain publisher at book fair in southeastern...
Police raided the Diyarbakır 8th Book Fair on its fourth day, confiscating copies of five books and detaining a publisher, the Artı Gerçek news...
Disinformation law used to punish Turkish journalist reporting on earthquake response
Turkish journalist Yüsra Batıhan, who reported on alleged failures in the government’s response to the February 2023 earthquakes, is facing charges under the country’s...
Gov’t, media colluded to frame Gülen movement as terrorist: pro-Erdoğan journalist
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a journalist who describes himself as the president’s “spin-doctor,” revealed the...
Turkey’s former opposition leader charged again, faces up to 65 years in prison
New criminal charges have been filed against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the former leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who now faces a...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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.
In recent years...