Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence for remarks at book fair
A Turkish court has handed down a three-month suspended sentence to investigative journalist Bahadır Özgür for allegedly insulting the government during a 2022 book...
Turkish court convicts Kurdish journalist of disseminating terrorist propaganda
A Turkish court on Monday convicted Kurdish journalist Hayri Demir of disseminating terrorist propaganda through his reporting, the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA)...
Turkish court moves to block 3 popular news accounts on X
A Turkish court has ordered a block on access to three widely followed news accounts on the social media platform X, marking the latest...
Turkish journalist detained after reporting alleged assault of nationalist party official
A Turkish journalist was detained Wednesday after publishing a report alleging that a local official from the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) was assaulted...
Prominent Turkish academic ends political commentary, fearing imprisonment
Prominent Turkish academic and journalist Nuray Mert has announced that she will no longer write about Turkish politics or speak publicly on political matters,...
Two journalists detained in home raids in İstanbul
Two Turkish journalists were detained on Thursday as part of an investigation into the sale of a television station, the İstanbul prosecutor’s office said,...
7 journalists indicted for covering protests over İstanbul mayor’s arrest
Turkish prosecutors have indicted seven journalists who were held in pretrial detention for several days last month for covering mass protests following the arrest of İstanbul...
Turkish communication authority to have power to block social media on national security grounds
A new draft regulation would give Turkey’s top telecom authority the power to block access to social media platforms like Facebook, X, WhatsApp and...
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin sent to İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, detained in Turkey last week on terrorism-related allegations, was arrested on March 29 and transferred two days later to Silivri...
Turkey fines Meta for refusing to suspend protest-linked accounts
Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday said it was fined a “substantial amount” in Turkey for failing to comply with government orders to suspend accounts...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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