Jailed Turkish journalist Gündem to appear in court for first time in 9 months
Jailed Turkish journalist Mehmet Gündem, who was arrested in November 2017 on terror charges, will appear in court for the first time in the...
Radio & Television Supreme Council begins supervision of Internet broadcasting in Turkey
A newly passed regulation authorizing Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to exercise vast powers over online streaming services took effect as of...
UN announces additional $25 million for earthquake response in Syria
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths on Friday announced an additional $25 million grant to boost aid efforts...
Former nurse who died by suicide after being dismissed in post-coup purge reinstated after...
A former nurse who died by suicide after being fired in a wide-ranging purge in the aftermath of a July 2016 coup attempt in...
Int’l political psychologists: Turkish example shows how authoritarians rise and institutions fail in a...
The Turkish government’s crackdown on critics of the government may be a harbinger of things to come in currently democratic nations as authoritarianism is...
At least 44 people, including AP reporter, detained by police at İstanbul’s banned LGBT...
At least 44 people were detained at the LGBT Pride March in İstanbul’s Taksim Square on Sunday, as tension rose after the İstanbul Governor’s...
Turkey tops list of countries with cases pending before European rights court
According to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) statistics, 26.3 percent of applications pending before the court as of October 31, 2022 had come...
Report: Tips claim about 1,000 detainees being tortured by police across Turkey
It is claimed that about 1,000 people who were detained by police forces last week have been started to be tortured in detention centers...
Council of Europe denounces Turkey’s dismissal of mayors
Marc Cools, president of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, has expressed grave concern over Turkey's dismissal of...
HRW urges UN to address human rights violations in Turkey
As Turkey will undergo its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
Latest Reports
Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
Drawing on opinions of...
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...