81-year-old Turkish actress gets suspended sentence on Erdoğan insult charges
An 81-year-old Turkish actress has been given a suspended sentence of 11 months, 20 days on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
UN official condemns killing of aid worker in Turkish-controlled city of Al-Bab
UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis Mark Cutts on Wednesday condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker in an explosion...
Turkey again blocks YouTube channel of dismissed public workers despite top court ruling
Turkish authorities have blocked KHK TV's YouTube channel and X account for the second time, just three months after the Constitutional Court ordered the...
Former teacher arrested on Gülen links diagnosed with brain tumor for third time
A former teacher who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement shortly after surgery to remove a tumor from his brain has...
Turkey detains third journalist in two days
The police in Balıkesir have detained journalist Cengiz Erdinç on accusations of spreading misinformation, in a third incident of journalist detention in two days,...
KCK claims killings of 3 Kurdish women in Paris planned by Turkish intel service...
The outlawed Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella organization that encompasses the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has claimed that Sabahattin Asal, a high...
Turkey detained 24 journalists in 2025, RSF barometer on abuses shows
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) logged 24 cases of journalists detained in Turkey in 2025, including YouTube hosts, television anchors and staff of a leading...
Turkish Education Minister: 33,065 teachers, staff purged from ministry
Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said that 33,065 teachers and personnel have been expelled from the education ministry and 43 of them have...
Turkey’s top appeals court delivers landmark judgment against arbitrary denial of parole
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals (Yargıtay) has delivered a landmark decision that found unlawful a prison board’s refusal to grant early release on the...
Turkey’s main opposition accused of hypocrisy in stance on replacement of pro-Kurdish mayors
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was accused of hypocrisy for its support of the Turkish government’s practice of removing mayors –- mostly...
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...