Turkey’s top court rejects 96 percent of all individual applications, statistics show
The Turkish Constitutional Court rejected 96 percent of the 266,466 individual applications made in the last eight years. In only 8,659 of these petitions...
Turkish police use disproportionate force to disperse HDP press briefing, detain 12
Turkish police on Wednesday forcefully intervened in a press briefing held by the Kurdish-oriented Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and detained 12 people, the Gazete...
Turkey confiscated or froze $32 billion in assets belonging to gov’t critics
Turkish authorities have confiscated or frozen $32 billion worth of assets, according to the Brussels-based human rights group Platform for Peace and Justice (PPJ)...
TBB, 80 Turkish bar associations oppose gov’t plan to amend law on lawyers
The Turkish Bar Association (TBB) and 80 bar associations across the country have released a joint statement calling for an end to the government’s...
Dismissed Kurdish mayors, politicians in Turkey conditionally released
Ten local politicians and mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) removed from office on May 15 by Turkey’s Interior Ministry, have been...
Turkey stops testing prisoners for COVID-19 in notorious Silivri Prison
Testing has been halted for prisoners exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 in Turkey’s Silivri Prison under instructions from the Ministry of Health, the Mezopotamya news...
39 inmates with COVID-19 held together in one ward at Silivri Prison: report
Thirty-nine prisoners with COVID-19 are being held in the same ward at Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison, which houses some 23,000 inmates, according to the...
Turkey’s RTÜK fines broadcasters critical of gov’t $1.6 million in year and a half
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) over the last year and a half has imposed TL 11 million ($ 1.6 million) in fines...
Turkey drops investigation into demise of teacher who was tortured to death
The Istanbul chief public prosecutor has decided to drop an investigation into the death of Gökhan Açıkkolu, a teacher who died after enduring 13...
Turkish gov’t secretly launched campaign to justify rearrest of critical journalists: report
The Turkish government secretly orchestrated a social media campaign to ensure the rearrest 21 journalists immediately after a court ordered their release on March...
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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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