Turkish court rules to jail Kurdish journalist Sıddık Damar
Sıddık Damar, a reporter for the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), was arrested by a Turkish court in İstanbul on Wednesday over his...
Four opposition parties in Turkey agree to form election alliance
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), İYİ Party, Felicity Party (SP) and Democrat Party (DP) agreed early Wednesday to form an alliance for...
Turkish gov’t detains 52 police officers, 16 others over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained dozens of people, including 52 police officers, in the first two days of May as part of its massive post...
Erdoğanist Turkish hackers attack Greek news agency and threaten: We’ll throw you into the...
The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) on Monday night was hit by Turkish hackers, identifying themselves as “Akıncılar" (Raiders), who wrote threatening messages against Greece,...
Campaign seeks donations for purge-victim Turkish refugees in Greece
A fundraising campaign has been launched for Turkish refugees who have crossed into Greece to escape an ongoing purge and persecution being carried out...
Official cleric suspended by Turkish gov’t for criticising presidential system in sermon
A Turkish cleric in Turkey’s Black Sea region was suspended from his job for criticising Turkey’s presidential system, which was approved in a controversial...
Operative of Turkey’s Erdoğan in his witch hunt targeting followers of Gülen movement fired...
A Turkish lawyer working for the Dutch government was fired from her job due to her active role in a massive post-coup witch hunt targeting...
Report: Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia
As of Sunday, Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey for one year, Paul Benjamin Osterlund wrote for The Verge, saying, “Authorities said the ban...
Turkey celebrates Labour Day amid problems of work safety, lack of unionisation
As Turkey marks International Workers Day, or Labour Day, work safety, job guarantees and a lack of organized labor remain key problems for Turkish...
Turkey’s election board no longer requires presidential candidates to provide a copy of diploma
Turkey’s Higher Board of Election (YSK) has eliminated an obligation that required candidates of presidential and parliamentary elections to provide a copy of their...
Latest Reports
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...