More than 750 former cadets detained in Turkey as they turned 18
More than 750 former military cadets have been detained to date in 2021 over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as they turned...
Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement
Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...
Police disperse Ankara train station bombing mourners, 22 detained
Turkish police on Sunday dispersed people who had gathered in Ankara’s Ulus district to commemorate the victims of a 2015 terrorist attack near the...
UN Working Group urges Turkish gov’t to end enforced disappearances
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances urged Ankara “to prevent and terminate enforced disappearances,” in its annual report on enforced or involuntary...
Exiled journalist establishes publishing house to print books banned in Turkey
Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist living in exile, has said a publishing house has been established in Germany to print books that have been...
Inmates objecting to unlawful strip-search beaten in Turkish prison
Inmates were beaten by guards for resisting a strip-search when they were transferred to Tekirdağ Prison in northwestern Turkey, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA)...
Opposition MP not allowed to visit critically ill woman in prison
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairwoman Gülizar Biçer Karaca wasn’t allowed to visit critically ill Ayşe Özdoğan, 34, who was sent to...
460 inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates, Justice Ministry says
Four hundred sixty inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates and 2,371 have master’s degrees, according to the general directorate of prisons and houses of...
Turkish asylum seeker dies in Germany after fleeing persecution in Turkey
A 31-year-old man who fled to Germany in search of a safer life after being sentenced to prison in Turkey for alleged links to...
Turkey fails to propose a plan to release Demirtaş to CoE committee
The Turkish government has said that Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), may be released on parole on...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: 2025 in Review
During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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