Turkish baby girl, whose mother was detained right after she was born, now growing...
Ahmet Naim & Bahar Çelebi, Athens
Turkey recognized her in September 2017 with police officers waiting at the door of a delivery room. Her name...
Inmate on hunger strike kept in unsanitary conditions in hospital, lawyers say
Sibel Balaç, an inmate in Ankara’s Sincan Prison who has been staging a hunger strike since December 2021, is being kept in unsanitary and...
Rights groups urge EU to suspend funding amid allegations of human rights abuses in...
A coalition of civil society organizations has called on the European Union to suspend funding to Turkish facilities implicated in human rights abuses.
Following a...
Independence of Turkey’s forensics council called into question as 3 more die in prison
Doubts have grown over the independence and credibility of Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, as...
Detention of human rights defenders in Turkey extended for another 7 days
The detention of a group of human rights defenders who were taken into custody on July 5, 2017 during a workshop at a hotel...
Turks in South Africa fear abduction by Erdoğan gov’t over alleged Gülen links
“Yesterday we were sitting together, today they call us terrorists. Immediately overnight they changed,” said an obviously distressed Turkish national during an interview with...
Turkish Interior Ministry to file complaint against opposition mayor over anti-Syrian remarks
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı on Wednesday said the ministry would file a criminal complaint against an opposition mayor in southern Turkey for...
Turkey’s hunger threshold exceeds minimum wage
Turkey’s hunger threshold for the month of April increased to TL 17,725 ($546), exceeding the minimum wage of TL 17,002, according to a study...
23 people briefly detained over Kurdish songs played at wedding in central Turkey
Twenty-three people were briefly detained on Saturday due to the Kurdish songs played at a wedding that took place in central Turkey about a...
Prosecutor seeks aggravated life sentences for prominent Turkish journalists over their articles
An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded aggravated life sentences for nine journalists in a trial of employees of the former Zaman daily, which was closed...
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...