Sock company with $50 million turnover transferred to TMSF due to Gülen links
One of the five largest sock companies in Turkey, Akın Çorap, which has an annual turnover of $50 million, has been transferred to Turkey’s...
Jailed journalist who tested positive for COVID-19 kept in prison in Turkey
Çetin Çiftçi, a journalist incarcerated in Ankara’s Sincan Prison, reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 and was sent back to the prison on May 27...
Turkish court sentences 3 executives of now-closed TV station to prison for ‘terrorist propaganda’
The İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court on Wednesday handed down prison sentences of three years, nine months to each of three executives of the...
Erdoğan’s son-in-law sues over tweet questioning drones’ capabilities after earthquakes
Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) producer Baykar who is also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkish gov’t detains 221 people over links to Gülen movement in past week
The Turkish government detained a total of 221 people last week (Aug.13-Aug.20) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
Exiled Turkish journalist harassed by Turkish embassy, security officials at Johannesburg event
A Turkish journalist who is currently living in exile in South Africa was subjected to harassment and physical intervention by the Turkish embassy and...
Lawyer abducted by Turkish intel talks about his experience in new documentary
Mustafa Özben, a lawyer who was missing for 92 days in Turkey and later revealed to have been abducted by the National Intelligence Organization...
Probe into the assassinations of three Kurdish women in Paris reopened
A probe into the murder of three pro-PKK (the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) Kurdish political activists Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez in...
NRC reports Turkish-Dutch youngsters trained by radical Islamist Nureddin Yıldız in Turkey
The political Islamist National View (Milli Görüş) organization has taken dozens of Turkish-Dutch youngsters to Turkey in recent years to have them taught by...
Turkish court rules to release HDK’s Hamzaoğlu and ESP’s Çelebi
A Turkish court in Ankara ruled for the release from jail of 11 pro-Kurdish and socialist politicians, including Prof. Dr. Onur Hamzaoğlu, co-spokesperson of the...
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...