Academic couple fleeing post-coup crackdown in Turkey caught hidden in truck
An academic couple who had been sentenced to prison over links to the faith-based Gülen movement have been caught by Turkish authorities in the...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
Turkish forest campaigner named to BBC’s 100 Women 2024 list
Nejla Işık, a Turkish village head and forest campaigner who has led a five-year struggle against deforestation designed to enable mining activities in western...
AKP, MHP reject motion to investigate alleged state relations with crime groups
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Wednesday rejected a parliamentary motion by the pro-Kurdish...
Pro-gov’t daily targets Turkish journalist in antisemitic attack
The pro-government Takvim daily yesterday launched an anti-Semitic attack against Karel Valansi, a Turkish journalist and foreign policy analyst, in a report critical of...
Turkish gov’t dismisses 38 more diplomats with latest decree over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government dismissed 38 diplomats including deputy chiefs of mission from Turkey's Foreign Ministry over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, part of...
Turkey detains 14 more over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police detained 14 individuals on Tuesday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a series of coordinated house raids in three...
Wife of jailed former judge says husband was handcuffed to hospital bed after surgery
Rabia Başer, a former judge and the wife of jailed judge Mustafa Başer, who is suffering from cancer and underwent major surgery in January,...
128,872 people have faced criminal investigation for insulting President Erdoğan in five years
Turkish prosecutors investigated 128,872 people for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan between 2014 and 2019, the Duvar news website reported.
The number of individuals facing...
Turkey’s intelligence service abducts 2 people from Azerbaijan and Ukraine over Gülen links
Two people were detained abroad and transported to Turkey by agents of the country's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) on Thursday over their alleged...
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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...
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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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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...