8 including former Cihan news agency reporter detained over alleged ByLock use in Turkey
Eight people including a former reporter from the now-closed Cihan news agency were detained on Thursday over use of a smart phone application, known...
ECtHR decides to prioritize applications by journalists regarding press freedom
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will give priority to applications regarding press freedom and journalists, in line with a recent amendment to...
Closed DİHA’s journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
Zekeriya Güzüpek, the chairman of the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), a pro-Kurdish news agency and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA's...
Turkish government puts up for sale properties of 9 TV, radio stations seized from...
The properties of the 9 of the media outlets which Turkish government has seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale...
4.5-year jail sought for controversial Turkish historian on charges of insulting Atatürk
An indictment prepared by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in İstanbul is seeking a jail sentence of four-and-a-half years for controversial historian Mustafa Armağan...
Former Zaman columnist sentenced to 10.5 years on terrorism charges
Former Zaman columnist and academic Abdülkadir Civan has been sentenced to 10 years, five months in prison on charges of alleged membership in a "terrorist organization,"...
COMMENTARY — What did you want from Ayşenur?
By Arzu Yıldız
"Ayşenur was a person who could not even tell a simple lie on the phone, and I did like her this way...
FIDH: Journalist Çapan imprisoned in Turkey after unofficial refoulement from Greece
Turkish journalist Murat Çapan has been imprisoned in Turkey after unofficial refoulement from Greece, said the FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) in a...
PACE says democratic referendum hindered under emergency rule in Turkey
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said democratic referendum process was hindered in Turkey by restrictions on freedom of expression, association, movement...
Turkish court gives prison sentences to BirGün daily’s editor Gültekin and owner Aydın
Journalist Berkant Gültekin, a managing editor of leftist Turkish daily BirGün, and İbrahim Aydın, the owner of the paper, were sentenced to 21 months...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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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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