594 young children growing up in Turkish prisons
Five hundred ninety-four children under the age of 6 are being kept with their mothers in Turkish prisons, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice said, the...
Municipality denies tax break to purged public servant
A municipality in Samsun province refused to give a dismissed civil servant a property tax reduction available to all eligible citizens, citing instructions from...
Turkey’s Erdoğan gears up his anti-Semitic rhetoric as targeting KRG’s Barzani
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued on Thursday to associate Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) referendum on independence from Iraq with Jews and Israel...
Detention warrants issued for 41 Court of Accounts employees over Gülen links
An Ankara prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 41 employees working for Turkey’s Court of Accounts due to their alleged links to the faith-based...
Closed DİHA’s journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
Zekeriya Güzüpek, the chairman of the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), a pro-Kurdish news agency and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA's...
Turkey overwhelmingly leads world in Twitter censorship
The Turkish government is continuing its efforts to censor Twitter, according to the site’s new transparency report, which shows that 466 of 513 total...
Commerzbank: Turkey’s official growth figures questionable, possibly politically influenced
Germany’s second-largest bank, Commerzbank, has said Turkey’s official growth figures released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) are more than questionable and may have...
Turkish gov’t bans upcoming Women’s Day celebrations in Diyarbakır
The Turkish government has banned celebrations of the upcoming International Women's Day in Diyarbakır province, Kurdistan24 reported on Wednesday.
According to the report the Turkish...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rules in favor of labor unions over Labor Day demonstrations
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has ruled that the violent police obstruction of Labor Day gatherings in İstanbul’s historic Taksim Square in 2014 and...
Jailed Kurdish politician criticizes peace efforts for ignoring reconciliation between Kurds and Turks
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party, has accused the government of neglecting social reconciliation in its ongoing peace...
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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...