Turkey blocks 120 critical Twitter accounts with a single court decision
An Ankara court has ruled to block access to 120 critical Twitter accounts including @TurkeyPurge , which is closed for the fourth time in 7 months without issuing a prior notification...
Diyarbakır teacher sentenced to one year for ‘praising terrorism’ during talk show
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik has been given a prison sentence of 1 year and 3 months for “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization” in...
Turkey ranks 155th in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index
Turkey, which has around 200 journalists jailed in its prisons, is ranked 155th among 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index released...
PACE to discuss and vote on degrading Turkey’s status to monitoring process on Tuesday
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss whether to degrade Turkey’s status and reopen...
Man arrested for insulting Turkey’s President Erdoğan on social media
One out of four individuals who were recently detained in Eskişehir province on charges of insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social...
Turkey releases jailed Italian journalist Del Grande
A Turkish court has released Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, who was detained during a security check...
Peace activist, conscientious objector Yaylalı arrested in Şırnak
Peace activist and conscientious objector Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, who settled in Roboski village to stand with families after 2011's massacre, was arrested and jailed in...
10 arrested for ‘insulting’ President Erdoğan during referendum protest and on social media
Seven people were arrested for insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during protests held in İzmir in the aftermath of an April 16...
Int’l human rights organizations urge Turkey to reverse extension of emergency rule
A letter written on Friday to Frederica Mogherini, EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and Donald Tusk, president of the European...
HRW calls on Turkey to release detained Italian journalist
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on Turkish authorities to release Italian journalist and writer Gabriele Del Grande, who was detained during a...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
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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
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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.
In recent years...