Turkish university student detained for wearing ‘hero’ T-shirt, stripped while under police custody
A 24-year-old university student, identified with his initials B.Ö., was taken into police custody where he was stripped half naked, for wearing “hero” T-shirt...
Erdoğan’s hostile rhetoric boosts anti-west, anti-American sentiments in Turkey
The anti-West and xenophobic rhetoric of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his government and the media has boosted anti-west, anti-American sentiments in a...
AKP teaches Turkish children jihad and politics at Mersin summer camp
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing is giving children below the age of 18 education in jihad and politics at a...
Twisting his stance Turkey’s Erdoğan says he wants better ties with EU, Germany
By twisting his traditional hostile stance against the western world Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed hope for good relations with the...
Turkey to persecute journalists over naked detention pictures of PKK suspects
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Turkey's Muğla province has launched an investigation into those who photographed a detention procedure that included stripping suspected militants of...
COMMENTARY — Turkish probe revealed Erdoğan sent arms to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The cover-up in the transfer of heavy arms to terror organizations in Syria by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s spy colonel Kemal Eskintan, master of conspiracy plots
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Based on a wealth of revelations in the last couple of years during trial proceedings, the view that the false flag coup...
EU calls on Turkey to investigate abduction cases targeting Gülen movement
The European Union (EU) on Thursday said it was closely following developments in Turkey including the abductions of people from the Gülen movement, reminding...
Washington police release video of 8 more Erdoğan bodyguards wanted for attack
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The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department released a video on Saturday of eight more “persons of interest” believed to be in Turkey's autocratic President...
Turkish police wait to detain Feyza Yaylacı shortly after her delivery of a premature...
Turkish police have been reportedly waiting in front of a door of a patient's room at Memorial Hospital in Ankara, where Feyza Yaylacı has...
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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The May 2023 re-election of...