14 years on, family and friends still seek justice for slain journalist Hrant Dink:...
Scores of people on Tuesday continued to call on Turkish authorities to identify all those involved in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink...
Political tension increasing in Turkey ahead of critical elections
Political tension has increased across Turkey ahead of the June 24 parliamentary and presidential elections in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking...
More than 30,000 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2022
Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data have revealed that a total of 31,890 children were victims of sexual offenses in the country last year, the...
Editor-in-chief of pro-Erdoğan Yeni Akit daily targets widow of slain journalist Hrant Dink
Ali İhsan Karahasanoğlu, editor-in-chief of the pro-government radical Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper, targeted Rakel Dink, the widow of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in...
Veteran Turkish columnist Ahmet Turan Alkan: I cannot lick the knife that is cutting...
Veteran Turkish columnist and prominent political scientist Ahmet Turan Alkan, who used to write for the Zaman newspaper, at one time Turkey’s most highly circulated...
Turkish gov’t facilitates organized crime, fights political opponents: report
The Turkish government’s role in the country’s escalating organized crime activities is scrutinized in the recently published Global Organized Crime Index 2023 released by...
Turkish prosecutor orders detention of 292 military officers and cadets over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 292 active duty and former military officers and cadets due to their alleged links to the Gülen...
CHP’s İnce asks if Turkish intelligence agency is tasked with following the opposition
Muharrem İnce, the presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), asked on Tuesday if it is the task of the intelligence agency...
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog imposes program ban, fine on pro-opposition Halk TV
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s government regulator for broadcasting, has imposed a five-time program ban as well as an upper limit...
European lawmakers stand with prominent human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu
A group of European lawmakers, academics and activists expressed solidarity with human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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