Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges
Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country’s Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...
Paralyzed man found ‘fit to remain in prison’ by forensic medicine council
The İstanbul Council of Forensic Medicine said a paralyzed inmate with several health problems was "fit to remain in prison," despite acknowledging in its...
‘Take your hands off my university,’ says journalist whose newspaper was also shuttered by...
“When I saw the heavy police presence at İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University … memories were rekindled in my mind of the brutal takeover of...
Erdoğan and his ally accuse Boğaziçi students of being terrorists
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right ultranationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli have accused the young people who have been demonstrating for weeks against...
Turkish prosecutor orders detention of 292 military officers and cadets over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 292 active duty and former military officers and cadets due to their alleged links to the Gülen...
Amnesty starts campaign calling on Turkish authorities to investigate enforced disappearance of purged civil...
Amnesty International issued an urgent call for action on Monday for the investigation of the suspected enforced disappearance of Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former...
More than 100 students detained at Boğaziçi University amid protests against crackdown on LGBT...
The arrest of two Boğaziçi University students over a poster that depicted LGBT rainbow symbols alongside an image of the Kaaba in Mecca has...
Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community: report
Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as “perverts,” saying the tweets...
MEPs call on EU member states to take action at CoE meeting for release...
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on EU member states to use all means at their disposal to ensure the release of...
Assyrian, Chaldean associations call on Turkish authorities to investigate disappearance of villagers
Chaldean and Assyrian associations in Europe, the United States, Australia and Iraq sent a joint letter to Turkey’s justice and interior ministers demanding a...
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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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