Turkish police beat and detain 3 workers for listening to Kurdish songs
Turkish police reportedly beat and detained three construction workers in Balıkesir after they were found listening to Kurdish songs in a local park, the...
Former CHP leader faces prison for statements defending victims of gov’t crackdown
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, former leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP), faces up to more than three years in prison since a court...
Prosecutor charges 16-year-old with insulting Erdoğan
A 16-year-old girl in İstanbul faces charges for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a prosecutor demanding her conviction, Turkish Minute reported on...
Exiled Turkish journalist leaves Sweden 2 years after brutal attack
Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden, said in an interview with the Journalisten news website that he left the country...
Turkey detains 20 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 20 people across 11 provinces over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by the government, Turkey’s...
CPJ urges X not to comply with Turkish court order blocking journalists’ accounts
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the administrators of X not to comply with a recent order by a Turkish court to...
New study reveals millions grapple with poverty in İstanbul
According to a recent study by the İstanbul Planning Agency (İPA) millions of people living in İstanbul are contending with the effects of increasing...
20-month-old toddler accompanies mother in Turkish prison
A former Turkish academic was sent to prison along with her 20-month-old daughter to serve a six-year sentence for alleged links to the faith-based...
31 Kurdish inmates face telephone and visit bans for commemorating Kobani
Thirty-one inmates in a prison in Turkey’s western İzmir province have been stripped of telephone and visitation privileges, the Artı Gerçek news website reported...
Inmates put into solitary confinement for writing poetry in Kurdish
Two Kurdish inmates at Bafra Prison in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Samsun were put in solitary confinement for 11 days for writing poetry...
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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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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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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...