Serial Killer Says He Carried Out People’s Will By ‘Executing’ Gülen Follower
Atalay Filiz, on trial for a series of murders in Turkey, said in his defense that one of his victims was a Gülen movement...
MHP deputies attacked while campaigning for ‘no’ vote in upcoming referendum
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Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputies Ümit Özdağ and Yusuf Halaçoğlu were attacked as they were set to deliver speeches as part of a...
Women celebrating Int’l Women’s Day attacked by mob in İstanbul
Female students celebrating International Women’s Day at İstanbul Bilgi University were attacked by a mob that illegally entered the university campus.
According to a statement...
Pro-Erdoğan gang leader threatens European countries with violent protests
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Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in a video that he can organize...
Erdoğan advisor says Turkey to face more chaos than in post-June 7 period if...
Chief advisor to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and columnist İlnur Çevik has warned that there will be more chaos and instability in...
Once shut down by Taleban, now Afghan gov’t plans to hand over Turkish schools...
Political Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan led autocratic Turkish regime’s months long pressures have given fruits and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to...
United Nations told Christians in Turkey under crackdown
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a non-governmental organization in a special consultative status with the UN, has said religious minorities especially Christians...
COMMENTARY — Turkish government claims one-third of its diplomats are terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish foreign ministry has branded one third of its diplomats as terrorists by merely an executive decision without any judicial process...
SCF report on the Netherlands decodes Erdoğan’s long arm in Europe
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to abroad using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and front NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...
Al-Qaeda leader’s last sermon cancelled by Turkish governor
Ankara governor’s office cancelled the scheduled speech this Sunday by Turkish Al-Qaeda leader who has been freely preaching every Sunday morning for months and...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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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...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...