168 female journalists stood trial in Turkey in 2023: report
The Mesopotamia Women Journalists Association (MKG) has released a report focusing on alleged rights violations of female journalists in Turkey in 2023, which found...
Journalist gets suspended sentence due to tweet on YPJ women in Kobani
An İstanbul court has handed down a suspended sentence of 15 months to a journalist due to a 2015 tweet that showed women, part...
Journalist Demir Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison Over Her Books
Journalist Arzu Demir has been sentenced for 6 years in prison over her books titled “Dağın Kadın Hali (Womanly State of the Mountain)” and...
Turkey’s deputy PM Bozdağ: Nobody is under investigation due to journalistic activities
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said nobody in Turkey is under investigation for having written an article or published a news report...
France’s Macron criticises Turkish gov’t over press freedom ahead of Erdoğan’s visit
French President Emmanuel Macron has criticised Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over violations of press freedom and jailed...
Afrin locals’ remarks intentionally mistranslated on Habertürk in favor of FSA
In an apparent move to justify an ongoing Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the remarks of several locals who...
Pro-government Turkish daily insults ‘T A M A M’ Twitter protestors
The pro-government Akşam daily on Thursday insulted Turkish Twitter users who joined the T A M A M (OK in Turkish) campaign following a...
Erdoğainst Turks get Le Point ad removed from billboard in France
A group of Turks in Avignon, France, succeeded in the removal of a publicity poster for the French magazine Le Point, which in its...
Jailed Turkish columnist Mehmet Altan’s lawyers launch petition campaign
Lawyers representing Mehmet Altan, a prominent Turkish academic and journalist who has been held in a Turkish jail for more than 22 months over...
OSCE’s Désir questions media freedom in Turkey 49 times in 8 months
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has made 13 statements, posted 31...
Latest Reports
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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has released its latest report, “Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey,” a study that...
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...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used extrajudicial and illegal methods for the forcible transfer...