Chief justice slams appeals judges for defying top court rulings on jailed lawmaker
Zühtü Arslan, the chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, criticized the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday for failing to comply with the rulings...
Syrian refugees returning home as part of Turkey’s ‘voluntary’ program compelled to leave due...
Syrian refugees going home as part of Turkey’s “voluntary return program” said their return was far from voluntary and the result of increasing anti-migrant...
Main opposition leader announces 5 principles for resolving Kurdish issue
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu listed five principles for resolving Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish issue during an event at a local...
Turkish court rules for pretrial detention of Austrian journalist Zirngast over ‘terror offences’
A Turkish court ruled for the pretrial detention of Austrian journalist Max Zirngast and two Turkish nationals over their alleged membership in a terrorist...
ECtHR fines Turkey 70,000 euros in two separate cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday fined Turkey a total of 70,000 euros in two cases that were brought to the...
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik released from Diyarbakır Prison
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...
14 press organizations protest police violence against Turkish journalists
Representatives from 14 press organizations gathered in the capital city of Ankara on Tuesday to condemn the increasing police violence against journalists in Turkey,...
Turkish court orders release of jailed journalist Sedef Kabaş
An İstanbul court on Friday ordered the release of prominent TV journalist Sedef Kabaş, who has been behind bars since Jan. 22, handing down...
Three people imprisoned by Turkey’s courts over preventing imams from reciting Sala on night...
Three people, including a neighborhood administrator (mukhtar), were imprisoned by Turkish courts with charge of their alleged intervention into Sala prayers recited by a local...
Turkey detains and arrests dozens over alleged links to Gülen movement on Wednesday
Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement has continued on Wednesday with dozens of new detentions...
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...