Another woman detained while visiting imprisoned husband
N.A., a Turkish literature teacher who was left unemployed after her school was shuttered as part of post-coup emergency rule, was detained when she...
Court testimony reveals torture in detentions in Turkey
A Turkish Air Force officer testified in the court about how soldiers who were accused of involving in the coup were subjected to torture...
HDP deputy Aslan detained in Mardin’s Midyat
As part of a crackdown on Kurdish politicians, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Mehmet Ali Aslan was detained in the Midyat district of...
Detained wives of Turkish officers subjected to abuse, letter reveals
A letter shared by imprisoned wives of Turkish military officers reveal how they were subjected to torture and abuse while they were under detention...
Erdoğan on academic purge: Professors must also pay the price
Defending a recent purge of academics, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said academics must also pay the price of their mistakes just as others do,...
Turkish Consulate in the Netherlands seized Turks’ passports over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has confiscated the Turkish passports of a number of Dutch-Turkish people who are allegedly affiliated with the Gülen...
5 suspicious deaths at Gebze women’s prison in 2nd half of 2016
At least 5 people have suspiciously died at the women’s prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze district over the second half the last year, Republican Peoples’...
German deputy asks for questioning of Turkish PM over spying imams
A German deputy filed a complaint against Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, who is holding a rally in Germany today, over alleged links to...
The last chief editor of free Zaman daily: We should have kept our...
Journalist Abdulhamit Bilici, who was dismissed as editor-in-chief of Zaman following the brutal seizure of Turkey’s largest media group on March 4, 2016, said...
AKP’s Austria head says rejection of executive presidency would lead to civil war
In a video shared online the representative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Austria Mahmut Koç says if the transition to...
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday released its latest report, “Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics,”...
Turkey’s Abuse of INTERPOL: How Erdoğan Weaponized the International Criminal Police Organization for Transnational...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has abused INTERPOL in a number of ways.
The Erdoğan government has...
Left Behind to Die: COVID-19 in Turkish Prisons and Discrimination Against Political Prisoners
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This report focuses on amendments made to the Law on the Execution of Sentences and Security Measures in order to decrease Turkey’s prison...
Turkey’s Judicial Council: Guarantor or Annihilator of Judicial Independence
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This report focuses on Turkey’s top judicial administrative body (HSK, previously HSYK) and the country’s judicial architecture. It provides an assessment of the...
Human rights in Turkey: 2020 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2020. Rising pressure on the...
Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Case of Senegal
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to the West African nation of Senegal, specifically targeting members of the Gülen movement, using...
Clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
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Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign...
Free Thought under Siege in Turkey: the Crackdown on Education
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- Crackdown on education sector in Turkey victimized nearly 100,000 teachers and academics
The crackdown on critical thinking in Turkey with an unprecedented witch...
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
Kurdish political movement under crackdown in Turkey: The case of the HDP
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- New report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey
The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government...