Critical CNN Türk journalist parts ways with station
Journalist Nevşin Mengü, known for her critical stance towards the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkish courts handed down sentences to 41 journalists in first half of 2019
The Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) has announced that the first six months of the year saw the trial of 287 journalists, 41 of whom...
PEW report: 72 percent of Turks see US as security threat
Seventy-two percent of Turkish citizens see the United States as a threat to Turkey’s national security, a recent report by the Washington-based Pew Research...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violation in arrest of pro-opposition TV editor
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the 2023 arrest of journalist Merdan Yanardağ, editor-in-chief of the pro-opposition Tele1 TV station, violated his rights, the...
Turkey’s OHAL Commission to speed up decision process amid suspicions and criticism
The State of Emergency (OHAL) Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) has reportedly been set to step up making decisions in a shorter period of...
When the last barricade falls: Remembering unlawful takeover of Turkey’s largest daily
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On March 4, 2016, exactly one year ago today , hundreds of riot police officers fired rubber bullets and gassed loyal readers of Turkey’s...
42 Bank Asya, 31 KYK and PTT employees and more detained, 3 mayors dismissed...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement as police has detained at least...
Owner of closed Kurdish daily and 24 people detained in Diyarbakır
A total of 25 people, including Ramazan Ölçen, owner of the pro-Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, have been detained by Turkish police in simultaneous raids...
Journalist speaks out on abuse in Turkish prison after launch of social media campaign...
Nur Ener Kılınç, a journalist who used to write for the Yeni Asya newspaper, after the launch of a social media campaign protesting the...
HDP candidate Demirtaş says in TRT speech that Erdoğan’s ‘regime of fear’ yet to...
Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party’s (HDP), appeared on national TV for the first time on Sunday since...
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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...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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The May 2023 re-election of...