Kurdish journalist to serve prison sentence on terrorism charges
Journalist Sıddık Güler was arrested and sent to prison after his conviction on terrorism-related charges was upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals, the...
Turkey reshuffles cabinet, replaces or swaps 11 ministers
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Wednesday announced a new cabinet list, which included replacements or swaps in 11 out of 26 ministries, following...
Passport refusal reveals travel ban on fallen officer imposed 9 years after his death
Turkish authorities’ refusal to issue a passport to a 10-year-old girl has revealed that in 2025 a Turkish court had imposed an international travel...
Turkish gov’t tries leading businessmen over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has continued to try leading businessmen over their alleged links to the Gülen movement on Thursday. Ankara businessman Verdal Hosta was tired...
Turkish court rules for continuation of journalist Mehmet Baransu’s imprisonment
A Turkish court ruled on Friday for the continuation of former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu's imprisonment after three days of hearings and also...
Former intel official says Turkish intel agency abducts critics from Africa, Central Asia by...
Associate Professor Ali Burak Darıcılı, an intelligence expert and former official at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has said the organization has forcibly returned...
ÇGD report: 318 journalists detained, 103 jailed in Turkey in one year
A recently-released quarterly press report by the Contemporary Journalists’ Association (ÇGD) has revealed that 318 journalists were detained and 103 of them were jailed...
Turkish appeals court overturns reinstatement of dismissed academics
An appeals court in Ankara has overturned a lower court ruling to reinstate Taha Karaman and Hafize Öztürk Türkmen, academics who were dismissed in...
15,044 people investigated in one year for ‘inciting hatred and hostility among the public’
Turkish authorities investigated a total of 15,044 people for "inciting hatred and hostility among the public" in 2019, compared to 731 only a decade...
Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention is a ‘worrying step backwards’: UN human rights experts
Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, is “a...
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...