Women’s Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The increase in the number of violations of women’s rights in Turkey continued in 2024, with a rising number of femicide cases, bans on...
Erdoğan advisor likens Turkey purge to Aborigine, Native American, Armenian cases
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup era...
At least 1,359 workers died in occupational accidents in first eight months of 2025:...
Turkey recorded at least 1,359 deaths in work-related accidents in the first eight months of the year, the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) reported.
According...
CoE’s Jagland talks to Turkish justice minister for the release of jailed rights defenders
Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, held a phone conversation with Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül and called for the release...
Turkish lawyer claims name confusion resulted in client’s prison sentence for Gülen links
A Turkish court sentenced a person identified only by the initials A.G. to seven years in prison for allegedly using the ByLock smart phone...
Turkish academic illegally deported by Malaysian gov’t in 2017 not allowed to contact his...
İsmet Özçelik, 60, a Turkish academic who was illegally deported to Turkey by the Malaysian government in 2017 due to alleged links to the...
Turkish mother Elif Açıkgöz, detained just hours after delivery over Gülen links, released by...
Elif Açıkgöz, whom Turkish police has detained at Avrupa Hospital in Adana province just hours after she gave birth by cesarean section, over alleged links...
Turkey seeks up to 20 years for opposition politician jailed on espionage charges
Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of up to 20 years for defense analyst and Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) politician Metin Gürcan,...
Post-coup purge in Turkey leaves children parentless after mother and father are put behind...
Turkey’s post-coup purge is continuing to hit children, leaving them parentless in myriad cases, shattering their families, disrupting their education and upending their emotional...
Turkish domestic violence app downloaded 9.4 mln times, with emergency reports nearing 100,000
Turkey’s domestic violence reporting app has been downloaded 9.4 million times, with nearly 100,000 emergency reports submitted since its launch in 2018, Turkish Minute...
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...