EU preparing for Afghans already abroad to try to reach Europe: report
The EU is preparing for an influx of Afghans, by both traditional routes such as Greece via Turkey and new routes such as by...
99 percent of Turkey’s post-coup purge victims say they were denied fair trial: survey
Nearly 99 percent of civil servants dismissed by emergency decrees after a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 say they were denied the right...
Purged Turkish military officer remains jailed despite second medical report saying he cannot survive...
A panel of Turkish medical experts has declared for the second time that a military officer imprisoned for nearly a decade is too ill...
Turkey’s top court rules house arrest without questioning suspect violated rights
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that a lower court unlawfully restricted a suspect’s freedom by ordering house arrest without questioning the suspect and by...
CHP MP submits parliamentary question about lack of education of autistic children
Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Sibel Özdemir said in a parliamentary question that 92 percent of autistic children were not enrolled in school and...
Rights groups report doctors in İzmir prison tested positive for COVID-19
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) and the country’s Human Rights Association (İHD) have raised an alarm as two doctors in Şakran Prison in...
Turkish police accused of mistreating protester after hitting him with armored vehicle
Twenty-year-old Furkan Özen has accused Turkish police of brutality and the use of disproportionate force after he was hit by an armored vehicle during...
Turkey’s Crackdown on Kurdish Political Movement: 2021 in Review
The Turkish government continued its efforts to criminalize the Kurdish political movement with a view to weakening the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey’s third...
Turkey blocks X account of prominent digital rights advocate Yaman Akdeniz
Turkish authorities have blocked access to the X account of prominent digital rights advocate Yaman Akdeniz, a co-founder of the Freedom of Expression Association...
855 detained, 48 arrested in anti-Gülen operations in one week
A total of 855 people were detained, with 48 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
Drawing on opinions of...
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...