81-year-old Alzheimer’s patient detained over Gülen links
A 81-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links...
Travel ban forces young cancer patient to seek treatment overseas without mother
Eight-year-old Ahmet Burhan Ataç on Sunday travelled to Germany for cancer treatment without his parents, who are both victims of a purge carried out...
Pregnant Turkish inmate suffers anxiety attack after being denied medication
Esra Uymaz Saral, a 27-year-old Turkish woman who was arrested in İzmir when she was four and-a-half-months pregnant, has reportedly suffered an anxiety attack...
Turkey’s foreign policy determined by Russia’s Putin, opposition leader says
The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said Turkey’s foreign policy is being determined by Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing...
Turkish justice system fails to release purge victim diagnosed with stage 4 cancer
Abdülazim Özdemir, a 49-year-old engineer who was purged from his job at the Ministry of Development in the aftermath of a failed coup in...
5-year-old subjected to strip search during prison visit: report
A 5-year-old boy was subjected to a strip search during a prison visit in Turkey’s Samsun province, according to a letter written by an...
36-year-old woman with a rare genetic disorder held in prison for 6 months on...
Seynur Özdemir, a 36-year-old Turkish woman who suffers from Gardner’s Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, has been held in a Turkish prison for over...
Turkey’s state-run news agency cancels subscription services of gov’t-critical daily
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency has canceled subscription services paid for by the Sözcü daily, a newspaper that is critical of the government, after...
Turkish intelligence agency MIT got away with illegal wiretapping of prominent journalist
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A panel of judges acquitted Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) of falsifying documents in order to illegally wiretap the telephone of Turkish journalist,...
119 people in Turkey died due to crackdown on Gülen movement in 2019
At least 119 people lost their lives in Turkey due to an ongoing government-led crackdown on the Gülen movement, which is accused by the...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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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