Turkey among countries to benefit from free VPN access to fight censorship
Internet privacy company Proton said Wednesday it would offer a network of free VPN servers for use in a number of countries, including Turkey,...
37 former military cadets retried, given life sentences again on coup charges
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down life sentences to 37 former air force cadets in a retrial on coup-related charges due to their...
PACE calls for urgent action to amend early release law to include political prisoners
Several Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteurs have urged Turkish authorities to take the necessary legal steps to redress injustice emanating from...
Turkey denies entry to Uyghur resident returning from religious pilgrimage
Turkish authorities have barred a Uyghur man possessing a long-term residence permit from re-entering the country after a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, citing...
Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...
Top court upholds prison sentence given to head of shut-down jurist association
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence of 10 years handed down by a lower court to Murat Arslan, president of...
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...
Turkish journalist briefly detained over social media posts allegedly insulting Erdoğan
Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş was briefly detained on accusations of “insulting the president” and “inciting crime,” the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) reported.
Kabaş...
COMMENTARY — The US State Department is still confused about Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a...
Turkey ordered detention of 63 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 63 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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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 focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...