Turkey shuts down radio station over ‘Armenian genocide’ reference
İstanbul-based Açık Radyo announced on Wednesday it was being shut down by the authorities, six months after a guest talked about the “Armenian genocide”...
Turkish journalist forced into exile amid escalating death threats
İbrahim Haskoloğlu, a 28-year-old Turkish journalist known for his independent reporting, has announced his decision to leave Turkey indefinitely due to mounting death threats.
Haskoloğlu...
Press Freedom in Turkey: 2024 in Review
Press freedom in Turkey deteriorated further in 2024, with journalist associations calling it “a lost year” for press freedom. Turkish journalist groups warned that press...
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 arrests 4 journalists over alleged links to ‘illegal organization’
A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of four journalists who were detained last week in İstanbul as part of an investigation launched by...
RSF urges British PM May to raise press freedom issues in Turkey, US
Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has urged British Prime Minister Therasa May to use her meetings with Turkish President Recep...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan’s spying, profiling expands in Norway
Two more Norwegian NGOs with links to Turkish government were involved in what appears to be illegal profiling and surveillance of critics and opponents...
Turkey Purge: 1,895 people detained, 992 people jailed in past 15 days over coup...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Evrensel editor Sarı gets 11 months in jail for allegedly ‘insulting’ Turkish President
Çağrı Sarı, the managing editor of leftist daily Evrensel has been given 11 months 20 days prison sentence for allegedly insulting Turkish autocratic President...
Turkish veteran journalist Acar, who said ‘My newspaper turned into a prison,’ in jail...
Mustafa Erkan Acar (45), a Turkish journalist with 22 years of experience, has been deprived of his freedom for 557 days as of Feb. 2,...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...