The Year in Review: Women’s Rights
The year 2020 has witnessed an increase in rights violations against women in Turkey, with rising numbers of femicide cases amid discussions of withdrawing...
People flock to social media for Zarrab’s trial as Turkish media opts auto censorship
Allegations of wrongdoing by Turkey’s political and financial leaders have transfixed the country this week, but with some newspapers focusing instead on courtroom conspiracies...
Erdoğan gov’t has not been receptive to UN visit on arbitrary detentions in Turkey...
Turkey has refused to allow an official visit of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had ruled in recent years against the...
Turkish academic Koray Çalışkan put under house arrest
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been...
83-year-old ailing Kurdish woman incarcerated again after ATK finds her ‘fit to remain in...
Makbule Özer, an ailing 83-year-old Kurdish woman, was jailed for a second time on Monday after a medical report issued by Turkey’s Council of...
Kavala, Demirtaş’s continued imprisonment makes mockery of Erdogan’s rights plan: Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s (AI) Europe Director Nils Muižnieks has said Turkey’s failure to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş from jail...
‘Dictator Erdoğan’ says “I will call Europe fascist as long as they call me...
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been frequently defined as "dictator" by many political observers, has said he would call the European countries...
Dismissed teacher’s wife recounts hardship, family rift after Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
The wife of a teacher dismissed by an emergency decree after a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 has described years of economic hardship,...
2,981 killed in two years since truce collapse between Turkey, PKK
A total of 2,981 people were killed in two years during clashes between Turkish forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists since the...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily editor-in-chief: Will you find a better caliph than Erdoğan?
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Turkey's pro-government Star daily Editor-in-Chief Nuh Albayrak said during a TV show on Sunday that he has been raising the issue of reinstating the...
Latest Reports
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...