Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launches investigation into prominent journalist and MP Ahmet Şık
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into independent deputy and journalist Ahmet Şık over remarks supporting weeks-long protests in Turkey...
Journalists Müyesser Yıldız and İsmail Dükel face up to 31 years, 6 months in...
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a jail sentence of up to 31-and-a-half years for journalists Müyesser Yıldız, Ankara news director of the ultranationalist OdaTV...
Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges
Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country’s Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...
‘Take your hands off my university,’ says journalist whose newspaper was also shuttered by...
“When I saw the heavy police presence at İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University … memories were rekindled in my mind of the brutal takeover of...
Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community: report
Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as “perverts,” saying the tweets...
VOA documentary explores erosion of press freedom under Erdoğan’s rule
Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday released “Turkey: Breaking the Silence,” a new documentary exploring the erosion of freedom of the press in Turkey...
Turkish TV stations cut off broadcast after Uyghur woman takes the podium at party...
Turkish TV stations on Wednesday cut off their broadcast of an opposition party meeting in the Turkish Parliament after the party’s leader invited an...
Turkey sentenced 23 journalists to over 100 years in prison in 2020: report
Turkish courts handed down sentences totaling 103 years to 23 journalists in 2020, according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2020,” Turkish Minute reporting,...
Turkey’s intel agency to target exiled journalist, Erdoğan’s advisor says
Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, openly threatened a Swedish-based Turkish journalist with murder on live TV, broadcast...
Erdoğan blocks news about himself, his family, his senior officials: report
Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
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Human rights in Turkey: 2020 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2020. Rising pressure on the...
Erdogan’s Long Arm: The Case of Senegal
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to the West African nation of Senegal, specifically targeting members of the Gülen movement, using...
Clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
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Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign...
Free Thought under Siege in Turkey: the Crackdown on Education
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- Crackdown on education sector in Turkey victimized nearly 100,000 teachers and academics
The crackdown on critical thinking in Turkey with an unprecedented witch...
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
Kurdish political movement under crackdown in Turkey: The case of the HDP
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- New report highlights crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey
The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government...
Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case Of Norway
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- Erdoğan’s long arm reaches to Norway, targeting critics of Turkish government
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to Norway using...
Turkey Cracks Down On Health Care Professionals
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- New research shows Turkey’s purge destroyed lives of 21,000 health care workers
More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors,...
Tortured to Death: Holding Gökhan Açıkkollu’s Killers To Account
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- A new report uncovers a murder of detained teacher in Turkey due to torture
Deaths in detentions and prisons due to torture, abuse...
Abuse Of The Interpol System By Turkey
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- Turkey weaponised Interpol system to persecute critics, new study exposes
The Turkish government’s blatant abuse of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to...