Ankara to reject UK plan for Afghan refugee center in Turkey
The Turkish government will reject a UK plan to establish an asylum processing center for Afghan refugees in Turkey, the foreign ministry said in...
Austria to ban famous Rabia sign of Turkish President Erdoğan
Austria’s Interior Minister Herbert Kickl announced that the Austrian government is planning to ban certain Turkish hand signs, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Rabia,...
Most religion-based hate crimes in Turkey targeted Alevis, Christians in 2022: report
Alevis and Christians were targeted in the vast majority of religion-based hate crimes recorded in Turkey in 2022, according to a report by the...
Turkish officer ordered gendarmes to throw refugees pushed back by Greece into river, causing...
An officer in Turkey’s border city of Edirne ordered gendarmes to throw refugees pushed backed by Greece into the Evros River, causing the death...
Turkish villagers suspect ‘theft’ after 300-year-old bridge disappears
A 300-year-old stone bridge on a creek located in Turkey’s northeastern province of Gümüşhane was noticed to have vanished on Friday by villagers who...
Wildfires contained in northwestern Turkey, 10,000 acres destroyed
Wildfires that erupted in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday were contained on their third day after destroying 4,080 hectares (around 10,000 acres) of land, Turkish...
Police officer who crushed boy to death in SE Turkey walks free
A police officer who caused the death of a 7-year-old boy in southeastern Turkey last week with an armored vehicle he was driving has...
Turkish prosecutor to present testimony of new secret witness in Brunson trial on Friday
The testimony of two new secret witnesses will be presented by the prosecutor to a Turkish court during American pastor Andrew Brunson’s hearing scheduled...
Complaints of intolerable prison conditions surface from Edirne L-Type prison
Female inmates in Edirne L-Type prison have complained about unbearable prison conditions, the Tr724 news website reported.
Inmates recently told their families that sewage water had...
Detention warrants issued for 42 over alleged Gülen links, 26 detained
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 42 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, with 26 of them taken into custody,...
Latest Reports
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
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.
In recent years...
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: 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...