Erdoğan aide says president’s advisors were making coup jokes before July 15
Col. Ali Yazıcı, the top military aide for Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 67 union executives, dozens of military officers over...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants for 67 union executives and dozens of military officers as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign...
Turkish President Erdoğan rejects TV debate with opposition candidate
Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday accepted an offer for a visit by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem...
Turkish pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülen supporters a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for the pro-government Milat and Yenisöz newspapers, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is a “religious...
Widespread and systematic election frauds mark on Turkey’s referendum over executive presidency
As polls were closed and vote counting has been continuing in Turkey's historic referendum over shifting political system to an executive presidency with extreme...
The Kafkaesque case of a visual Turkish journalist: Don’t forget Fevzi!
On the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, Can Bahadır Yüce, a poet, academic and journalist, has written an article for English...
177 workers killed in occupational accidents across Turkey in April
One hundred seventy-seven workers were documented to have died in occupational accidents across Turkey in April, according to a monthly study released by a...
Greek commission approves Turkish soldier’s request for asylum
The Greek Asylum Commission on Tuesday approved the petition of a second Turkish military officer suspected of involvement in a controversial coup attempt in...
Turkish police detain İYİ Party’s head of communications over links to Gülen movement
Kerim Çoraklık, head of the communications team of Turkey's opposition İYİ Party has been detained on charges of making the propaganda of the faith...
Turkish court gives pro-Kurdish HDP’s Taşdemir suspended sentence for ‘terror propaganda’
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Dirayet Taşdemir has been given a suspended 20-month sentence on terror charges, while another HDP Ağrı deputy,...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
New report exposes systematic use of hate speech following Fethullah Gülen’s death to dehumanize...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan's Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...