1,200 newspaper staff facing job loss due to Turkey’s advertising authority decision
A decision by Turkey’s state-run Press Advertising Authority (BİK) announced on Saturday could result in 1,200 newspaper employees losing their jobs amid a currency...
Turkish court rules to re-detain 12 lawyers one day after releasing them
A Turkish court that had ruled for the release of 17 lawyers, most of whom have been imprisoned since September 2017 on accusations of...
Report: Turkish police detain hundreds of protesting airport construction workers
Turkish police have detained hundreds of workers protesting labor conditions at İstanbul’s new airport, a giant project championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Turkish court sentences British citizen to 7 years for fighting with Kurds against ISIL
A Turkish court has reportedly sentenced to prison a British citizen who joined Kurdish forces battling radical Islamist terror organization the Islamic State in...
Turkey’s İstanbul Municipality removes Trump’s name from metro underpass
The city council of İstanbul on Friday overwhelmingly voted to remove US President Donald Trump's name from a pedestrian underpass in the bustling business...
Turkish court rules for release of 17 lawyers from pre-trial detention
A Turkish court on Friday ruled for the release of 17 lawyers, most of whom have been imprisoned since September 2017 on accusations of...
Turkish courts jail 44 more military officers over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts ruled to jail at least 47 people, including 44 military officers on active duty, in İstanbul and Ankara as part of its massive...
Turkish airport construction workers go on strike, face pepper spray
Workers at the construction site of İstanbul’s new airport went on strike on Friday due to allegedly dangerous working conditions that have caused hundreds...
Turkish government arrests 2 more Austrian citizens
Two more Austrian citizens were recently arrested in Turkey and accused of spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
According to a report...
LRWC urges Turkish gov’t to release 21 jailed lawyers of İstanbul Bar Association
Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally, has urged the Turkish...
Latest Reports
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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has released its latest report, “Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey,” a study that...
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...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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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...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used extrajudicial and illegal methods for the forcible transfer...