Turkey never used Brunson as a bargaining chip, claims Turkish President Erdoğan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan broke his silence about threats of sanctions made by US President Donald Trump and claimed that Turkey never used...
Human Rights Watch: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians
Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, New York-based Human...
Tension rises between Turkey and the Netherlands with tit-for-tat steps
Dutch police has detained Turkish Minister of Family and Social Policy Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya to deport her to Germany after declaring her "undesirable...
Turkish government seeks to revoke citizenship of another 99 people including a 23-year-old
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has released a list of 99 people who are currently abroad and who will be stripped of their citizenship if they...
Report: German intelligence ponders putting pro-Erdoğan DİTİB under surveillance
German intelligence is reportedly examining whether to put the pro-Erdoğan Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which has been at the center of a series...
COMMENTARY — The air force on NATO’s southern flank gutted
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has gutted the NATO alliance’s second largest army, depleting what used to be a...
Prestigious Foreign Affairs journal covers Turkish gov’t’s witch hunt on global sphere
Turkish government has used its international clout to pursue exiles, dissidents, and regular citizens abroad and have Turkish citizens arrested in or deported from...
Pro-government mob attacks HDP office in Denizli, steals laptops, money
A pro-government crowd attacked a building in Denizli belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), officials said Wednesday.
Pictures from the scene appeared to...
İstanbul Municipality cancels invitation to Wikipedia founder after disputed ban
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has taken the name of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales from the invitee list of an event that will take place...
CHP deputy: Turkey may seize assets of other minorities after Syriacs
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Selina Doğan has criticized the seizure of Syriac assets by Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs and...
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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...