Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review

Download PDF This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024. Throughout the year Turkey continued...

Turkish prisons struggling with severe overcrowding, says DEM Party MP

Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu said in a social media post on Monday that Turkish prisons were struggling with severe...

Turkish academic gets suspended sentence for insulting president

Turkish academic and journalist Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör has been given a suspended sentence of more than one year on conviction of “insulting the president”...

32 detained in İstanbul as part of investigation targeting 4 opposition municipalities

Turkish police have detained 32 people, including former employees of four district municipalities in İstanbul, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the main...

Turkey’s top court annuls ban on damages for civil servants dismissed after 2016 coup...

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled the provision of a decree preventing civil servants dismissed under emergency decrees in the aftermath of a coup attempt...

Pro-government Turkish columnist faces backlash over hate speech against Alawites in Syria

A Turkish columnist has come under fire for hate speech after referring to Nusayris, a sect of Alawites in Syria, as “dogs of imperialism”...

Popular food critic faces probe for praising opposition municipality’s affordable restaurant

The Turkish government launched an investigation into famous food critic Vedat Milor after he praised a low-cost restaurant run by İstanbul’s opposition-governed municipality, Turkish...

İstanbul mayor files criminal complaint over death threat on social media

İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has filed a criminal complaint over a death threat made against him on social media, his lawyer has announced. Kemal...

Some 200 detained after İstanbul Women’s Day march, organizers say

Police detained some 200 demonstrators in İstanbul late on Saturday after more than 3,000 women marched peacefully through the city center under tight security...

Turkey’s Baykar sent $120 mln in drones and missiles to Sudanese army: report

Baykar, Turkey’s largest defense contractor, has secretly supplied $120 million worth of drones and warheads to the Sudanese military despite international sanctions, Turkish Minute...
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