Germany launches investigation into Diyanet’s Keskin
The Office of the Federal Prosecutor of Germany has launched an investigation into Halife Keskin, the foreign relations general manager of Turkey’s Religious Affairs...
CIA director Haspel listens to recording of Khashoggi killing during Turkey visit
CIA director Gina Haspel on a visit to Turkey earlier this week listened to an audio recording purportedly of the killing of Saudi journalist...
A Turkish businessman killed in Amsterdam over his alleged links to Gülen movement
The tension in Turkish politics led to a killing in the Netherlands. According to a report by Het Patrool, the Dutch police has confirmed...
Stockholm Center for Freedom calls on Malaysia to stop persecuting Turkish nationals
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), a monitoring group on rights violations in Turkey, remain highly concerned on the pattern of abductions, detentions and forcible...
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...
Academic Özcerit, who jailed by Turkish gov’t over Gülen links, passes away after diagnosed...
Ass. Profesor Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to work at Sakarya University’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science until he was first arrested and...
Turkey arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges
Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s jailed co-chair Demirtaş appears in court for first time in 14 months
Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) appeared before court in İstanbul for the first time on Friday, 14 months...
Theater play on ‘dictatorship’ not allowed to be staged in Turkey’s Artvin
A theater play, titled “Just Dictator,” by Turkish actor Barış Atay was denied permission to use a theater hall in the city center due...
Pro-Erdoğan journalist calls on assassins to take refuge in Turkey
In reaction to a decision on the part of Greece not to extradite eight Turkish soldiers who sought political asylum following a failed coup...
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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
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...