Court releases 2 Boğaziçi students from pre-trial detention in case involving Kaaba poster
An İstanbul court has released two Boğaziçi University students from pre-trial detention in the first hearing of a case in which they, along with...
Femicide victim filed 30 complaints with the police before her death
A woman who was killed by her ex-husband in southeastern Urfa province on Friday had filed 30 complaints with the police but was not...
Parents of police brutality victim appear in court for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan
The parents of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who was struck in the head with a gas canister fired by a police officer during the...
AFP photojournalist indicted for insulting police officers who brutally detained him
Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, who was brutally detained while covering the İstanbul Pride March in 2021, has been indicted on charges of...
İstanbul mayor files criminal complaint over death threat on social media
İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has filed a criminal complaint over a death threat made against him on social media, his lawyer has announced.
Kemal...
Artist given 2 years’ jail time for painting destruction in Kurdish town of Nusaybin
Zehra Doğan, a Turkish painter and reporter for the now-closed Dicle news agency, has been given a prison sentence of two years, nine months,...
42 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in September
Forty-two women were murdered by men in Turkey in September, while 20 died under suspicious circumstances, according to data from the Bianet news website.
At least eight...
Turkey frees jailed pop star after public outcry
An İstanbul court on Monday ordered the release pending trial of one of Turkey’s biggest pop stars, after her jailing over a religious joke...
Government vehicles hit 57 pedestrians in 4 years, killing 16 and injuring 41
A total of 16 pedestrians, including nine children and a disabled person, have died after being hit by government vehicles since 2018, according to...
Khashoggi fiancee urges Turkey to insist on justice despite Saudi thaw
Turkey must keep insisting on justice for slain Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi even as ties with Saudi Arabia improve, his Turkish fiancée told AFP...
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New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement
STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
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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This report examines how children from families targeted in Turkey’s unprecedented post-coup purge have endured the devastating consequences of persecution, social exclusion and...
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...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...