Turkey has more than a third of all cases pending before European rights court
Approximately 21,600 applications from Turkey are pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), making it the highest case-count country in 2024, comprising...
Turkish authorities continue to defy top court ruling on Armenian church foundation’s property rights
Turkish authorities have continued to defy a Constitutional Court ruling that recognizes the Vakıflıköy Armenian Church Foundation’s property rights, refusing to return contested real...
Drone strike on Kurdish ambulance by Turkey-backed forces in Syria constitutes apparent war crime:...
A drone strike by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) on January 18 that hit a Kurdish Red Crescent ambulance in northern Syria is...
Press groups condemn crackdown on independent media in Turkey, with 14 journalists arrested in...
Fourteen journalists have been arrested in Turkey since the start of the year, press freedom groups said Wednesday, condemning what they described as an...
Turkey’s actors, artists under pressure as gov’t turns up the heat
Ayşe Barım, a renowned manager of Turkish television stars, has always steered clear of politics, but that did not help her escape prison on...
Opposition parties hold joint protest in Ankara against removal of mayors
Representatives from six opposition parties have staged a protest in front of Turkey’s Interior Ministry in Ankara, condemning the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Former Turkish minister says judiciary became ‘militant’ after failed coup
Hüseyin Çelik, a founding member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who served as minister of education between 2003 and 2009, has...
Turkish court jails opposition journalist
A court in Turkey on Thursday ordered the arrest of a journalist from an opposition television channel accused of broadcasting a secretly recorded interview...
Turkey’s crackdown on Gülen movement continues, returning asylum seekers puts them at risk, report...
Turkey’s crackdown on alleged members of the Gülen movement is continuing despite claims by some Western governments that the persecution of the group is...
Halk TV executives questioned as Turkey expands crackdown on opposition media
Turkish authorities have summoned two senior Halk TV executives for questioning, expanding an ongoing investigation into the pro-opposition news network after three of its...
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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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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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Sippenhaft, also known as...