Turkey orders hundreds of detentions over alleged Gülen links in less than a week
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 256 people in the last five days due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to...
Report: EU countries working to block Turkey from hosting NATO summit
Eighteen EU countries and Canada will fight for Belgium to host the 2018 NATO summit instead of Turkey, according to a report in the...
Israeli court orders Turkish woman’s conditional release
An Israeli court on Monday ordered the conditional release of Ebru Özkan, a Turkish citizen who has been under arrest since June 11 for...
Co-rapporteur Mikko urges PACE to place Turkey under monitoring
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Marianne Mikko, co-rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialog with Turkey, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), criticized Turkey for jailing journalists en masse,...
49-member team to report to Turkey’s Erdoğan on Gülen-linked trials
A group of 49 people, nine experts from Turkey’s State Inspection Council (DDK) and 40 key advisers of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Journalism seen as crime only in totalitarian regimes, says jailed Cumhuriyet reporter Şık
Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ahmet Şık, who was detained on Dec. 22 and arrested on Dec. 30, 2016 on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda, said...
Main opposition leader calls for referendum on citizenship for refugees
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called for a referendum on whether the country should grant citizenship to people...
IAJ President Regnard says the rule of law ends in Turkey
Christophe Regnard, President of The International Association of Judges (IAJ), has defined the situation in Turkey as “the end of the rule of law”...
Former police chief not released from prison until too late succumbs to cancer
Tevfik Birecik, a 49-year-old former police chief who was not released from prison until his colon cancer had spread to other parts of his...
SCF reveals mass torture and abuse in an unofficial detention facility in Turkey’s capital
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), a monitoring group for rights violations in Turkey, has received credible reports of mass torture and abuse in an...
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...