US sanctions 2 Turkish ministers with leading roles in unjust detention of Pastor Brunson
The United States sanctioned Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül and Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Wednesday over the country’s imprisonment of American Pastor Andrew...
Danish court rejects extradition of alleged PKK executive due to Turkish torture of prisoners
A Danish court decided on Wednesday to release a Kurdish man who was claimed by the Turkish government to be an executive of the...
Turkish court sentences 10 TRT journalists to prison over alleged links to Gülen movement
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 10 journalists who used to work for Turkish public broadcaster TRT to between six years, three months and...
Turkey’s top court orders Treasury to pay pro-Kurdish HDP deputy TL 20,000 over flawed...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ordered the Treasury to pay TL 20,000 ($5,000) to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş for a...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls Trump, Pence remarks ‘language of US evangelist, Zionist mentality’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called sanction threats against Turkey by US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “language of...
Survey shows two-thirds of Germans against Erdoğan’s state visit
An opinion poll published on Wednesday by the Die Welt newspaper suggests that slightly less than a quarter of Germans support a planned state...
Erdoğan regime’s failure in education crystallizes in Turkish university entrance exam
The failure of the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in education has crystallized thanks to the results of the latest university...
US State Department: Turkey should release Pastor Brunson immediately
Turkey should release American pastor Andrew Brunson “now,” the US State Department said, repeating a warning that the country faces sanctions should it fail...
PKK bombing kills mother, infant in southeast Turkey
A roadside bombing by militants of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Tuesday night killed the wife and baby of a Turkish soldier in...
Turkish judiciary releases 3 men involved in murder of alleged child kidnapper
Turkish judicial authorities have released three men involved in the killing of a man who had allegedly attempted to abduct two children in İstanbul’s...
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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...