Disinformation law used to punish Turkish journalist reporting on earthquake response
Turkish journalist Yüsra Batıhan, who reported on alleged failures in the government’s response to the February 2023 earthquakes, is facing charges under the country’s...
Gov’t, media colluded to frame Gülen movement as terrorist: pro-Erdoğan journalist
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a journalist who describes himself as the president’s “spin-doctor,” revealed the...
Turkey’s former opposition leader charged again, faces up to 65 years in prison
New criminal charges have been filed against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the former leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who now faces a...
Turkish forest campaigner named to BBC’s 100 Women 2024 list
Nejla Işık, a Turkish village head and forest campaigner who has led a five-year struggle against deforestation designed to enable mining activities in western...
Koza-İpek Holding, affiliates seized over Gülen links transferred to sovereign wealth fund
Twelve companies, including Koza-İpek Holding, its affiliates and a luxury residence belonging to the İpek family seized by the Turkish government in 2015 over...
Int’l delegation seeks permission from Turkey’s Justice Ministry to meet with jailed PKK leader
An international delegation including lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in Turkey has applied to the Justice Ministry for...
Indictment seeks up to 3 years for famous mountain climber for spreading ‘disinformation’
An indictment drafted by İstanbul prosecutors seeks a prison sentence of up to three years for Nasuh Mahruki, Turkey’s most famous mountain climber and...
Another Kurdish mayor faces removal from office after top appeals court ruling
A mayor from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party faces removal from office after the Supreme Court of Appeals reversed a 2023 lower court decision that...
Turkey has lost more than 2,000 miners in work-related accidents under AKP rule
Turkey has tragically lost at least 2,188 miners in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002,...
More than 5,300 prisoner deaths reported in Turkey since 2002, activists call for accountability
Turkey's Ministry of Justice reported that 2,258 prisoners died between 2018 and 2023, according to a parliamentary response released in November, the Artı Gerçek...
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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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey: Violation of the principle of legality and no...
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...