Syriac organizations demand freedom for priest sentenced on terror charges in Turkey
Syriac organizations in Europe have demanded that the Turkish government release and drop all charges against priest Sefer (Aho) Bileçen, who was handed down...
Canada blocks arms exports to Turkey over misuse
Canada on Monday blocked military arms exports to NATO ally Turkey after a probe found Canadian drone technology had been misdirected for use in...
Boy struggling with leukemia needs jailed parents’ support, grandfather says
The grandfather of Hakan Dağdeviren, an 11-year-old boy diagnosed with leukemia in January whose parents are imprisoned as part of a crackdown in Turkey...
Turkey continues building new prisons to jail even more people
The Turkish government allocated 556 million lira (58 million euros) in the first quarter of 2021 for the construction of six new prisons, which...
Erdoğan criticizes opposition, using ethnic and religious slur
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan resorted to discriminatory language when criticizing the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a speech at the Union of...
Thousands of students faced human rights violations between 2015-2019: report
More than 3,000 students were subjected to human rights violations in Turkey between 2015 and 2019, according to a report recently published by the...
Lawyer arrested based on doctored document petitions Supreme Court of Appeals to revise its...
Turan Canpolat, 52, a lawyer who was arrested based on a doctored document on January 30, 2016, petitioned the Supreme Court of Appeals to...
182 people killed, 371 maltreated, tortured in Turkey in March: report
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in March included 182 deaths and 371 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 233 of them taking...
Jailed rights advocate says he found document detailing strip-searches
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights advocate and former lawmaker who has shone a light on controversial topics including torture and strip-searches in Turkey’s...
Turkish Interior minister claims number of femicides declined in first quarter of 2021
As Turkey receives growing criticism for withdrawing from an international treaty to combat domestic violence, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has claimed the number of...
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Turkey's political opposition faced intensifying pressure in 2025, with the judiciary emerging as the primary instrument for targeting dissenting voices. The most far-reaching measures...
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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.
Throughout the year human rights organizations...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: 2025 in Review
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...
Women’s rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
The state of women’s rights in Turkey showed no meaningful improvement in 2025, as longstanding problems persisted and new challenges emerged. Femicides, institutional failures...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report reveals how the Turkish government has transformed its embassies and consulates into instruments of repression over the past decade. Once seen...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...