Crackdown on Gülen movement continues with detention of 12 following Erdoğan’s victory
A crackdown on members of the Gülen movement is continuing with the detention of 12 people following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in a...
Opposition MP returns to parliament four months after expulsion
A lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) returned to his seat in the Turkish Parliament on Friday, four months after he was...
COMMENTARY — CPJ downplays the number of jailed journalists in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Although there are varying figures on the number of jailed journalists and media workers in Turkey from different advocacy groups, one thing...
Syrian ex-rebel on trial in France claims Turkey rejected war crimes case over child...
A former spokesman for a Syrian Islamist rebel group told a French court on Monday that Turkey refused to pursue a war crimes case,...
Syrians lose life-saving care as Turkey halts medical visits
Huddled inside a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Umm Khaled says she fears her baby will die unless she gets treatment from a specialist...
Erdoğan critics profiled by Turkish Embassy in Colombia, document reveals
Critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who had been profiled by the Turkish Embassy in Bogotá were included in a terrorism probe based on...
Int’l law associations urge UN to pressure Turkish gov’t over persecution of legal professionals
Three international law associations have urged the United Nations to enter into urgent dialogue with the Turkish government with a view to ending the...
Domestic violence claims lives of 79 women in first 5 months of Year of...
Seventy-nine women have been killed in incidents of domestic violence across Turkey in the first five months of this year, according to data from the We...
Pride Week activities to be banned in İstanbul over concerns of ‘protecting the family’:...
İstanbul’s newly appointed governor has announced that Pride Week activities in the city will not be allowed, citing concerns about the “protection of the...
Turkish minister boasts ‘world’s best refugee policy’ amid concerns of new wave of asylum...
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has boasted about Turkey’s refugee system and described it as the best in the world in the face of...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...