HRW documents Turkey’s authoritarian trajectory in 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that Turkey’s government consolidated its authoritarian trajectory in 2025 with an unprecedented campaign against the country’s main...
More than three decades on, Alevis still await justice for Sivas massacre
Thirty-two years after 33 intellectuals and artists were killed in an arson attack on a hotel in Turkey’s Sivas province, the search for justice...
Turkey’s foreign policy determined by Russia’s Putin, opposition leader says
The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said Turkey’s foreign policy is being determined by Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing...
Documentary filmmaker facing terrorism charges released on probation
A Turkish court has released from custody a documentary filmmaker who is facing terrorism charges due to a 2015 documentary on Kurdish militants after...
Report: Two Turkish nationals, abducted from plane in Kazakhstan, returned to Turkey
Enver Kılıç and Zabit Kişi, the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September turn out to have been...
US slaps sanctions on Syria armed group with Turkey links
The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a Syrian armed group that killed a Kurdish politician amid Turkey’s 2019 incursion, vowing to keep...
Turkish ultra-nationalists hurl stones at İstanbul synagogue
A group of ultra-nationalists affiliated with the Alperen Hearths, an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement called the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), gathered in...
Households receiving gov’t assistance in Turkey up 38 pct since 2017: report
Research shows that the number of people experiencing financial difficulties in Turkey has increased dramatically in the past five years, with the number of...
Mother, son demanding justice in political murder case taken into custody
Turkish police on Thursday detained a woman and her son who have been protesting in front of the Şanlıurfa Courthouse in southeastern Turkey in...
Court orders main opposition leader to pay Erdoğan 300,000 lira in damages
A Turkish court has ordered main opposition leader Özgür Özel to pay President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 300,000 Turkish lira ($6,580) in damages over remarks...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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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...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
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This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria...