Erdoğan closes major private university in İstanbul, leaving students, academics in limbo
Turkey has closed İstanbul Bilgi University, a major private university long known for its liberal academic environment and international programs, by presidential decree, leaving...
UN torture committee asks Turkey to respond to complaint by woman detained over Gülen...
The UN Committee Against Torture has asked Turkey to respond within six months to a complaint by Aysun Işınkaralar, who says she was tortured...
Turkey’s Erdoğan withdraws Turkish troops from NATO drill in Norway
Turkey has withdrawn its troops from a NATO military drill in Norway after Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his...
ECtHR poses questions to Turkish gov’t on processing of raw ByLock data
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has posed a series of questions to the Turkish government concerning the processing of raw data from...
Turkey’s OHAL Commission rules in favor of only 1,900 out of 30,000 applicants dismissed...
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) has examined the cases of 30,000 applicants who were dismissed by government decrees under a...
Turkish court hands down suspended sentence to sexual harassment perpetrator
A Turkish man who was convicted of sexually harassing a young woman on a public bus in central Turkey’s Kayseri province received a reduced...
Turkish gov’t seeks to collect debt from 6 opposition-run municipalities through sanctions: reports
The Turkish Labor Ministry has imposed financial sanctions on six municipalities run by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) aimed at collecting debt...
Former teacher says she was strip-searched in prison and punished for revealing it in...
Nagehan Yüksel, a former teacher at a religious high school who was convicted of terrorist organization membership due to her links to a faith-based...
A former Turkish justice minister got €400K in bribes to help me get out...
A former justice minister of Turkey received €400,000 in bribes to help an inmate secure early release from prison, wiretaps of the convict’s phone...
Son of late purge victim launches campaign for release of sister from detention
The son of Associate Professor Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who was removed from his job, jailed and died of cancer in the wake of a...
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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.
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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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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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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...