Inquiry into police malpractice in femicide case blocked by governor’s office
A formal inquiry into police officers who failed to pursue a complaint filed by Emine Bulut (38), who was later stabbed to death by...
Political prisoner in Turkey locked up in a cell with ISIS suicide bomber for...
Turkish police deliberately put a political prisoner in a cell with a suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bomber as part...
Court allows convicted rapist to exercise ‘right to be forgotten,’ bans news about his...
A Turkish court last week granted the request of Recep Çakır, a national wrestler who was sentenced to 23 years, six months’ imprisonment in...
Doctor bearing witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: I kept hearing awful...
A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...
Turkish prosecutor who approved torture chambers at unauthorized site identified: report
Torture chambers set up at an unofficial detention site in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara that were the subject of a Council of Europe...
Doctor bears witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: Rape with police truncheon...
A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...
Journalist Mevlüt Öztaş succumbs to cancer after belated release from prison
Journalist Mevlüt Öztaş, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while in jail, died on Wednesday after his belated release from prison despite a medical...
Turkey has removed 146 mayors from Kurdish parties in 4 years: report
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Tuesday published an 84-page report on the removal of HDP mayors in the last four years, after the...
Turkey’s witch hunt of critics was expanded to India
Turkey’s relentless campaign to hunt down critics of the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan abroad reached as far as India, judicial documents...
Woman abducted and raped by NCO in southeast Turkey dies in hospital after attempting...
An 18-year-old-woman who was abducted and raped by a noncommissioned officer (NCO) for 20 days in the southeastern city of Batman has died in...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
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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
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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.
In recent years...