A criminal complaint filed against demolition of ancient Hasankeyf by Turkish gov’t with explosives
Libertarian Lawyers Platform (ÖHP) has filed a criminal complaint with the Batman Chief Prosecutor's Office against those who are responsible for making rocks fall...
Secret witness says ISIL running bookstore in Turkey’s Gaziantep province
A secret witness mentioned in an indictment drafted regarding an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Gaziantep last year has...
Turkish academic announces he will not vote for any woman candidate in local elections
A professor of aviation and space sciences at Turkey’s Necmettin Erbakan University has announced that he will not vote for any female candidate in...
Computer science professor, jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison
Under pre-trial arrest for 13 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to be an associate professor at...
Erdoğan targets West: Some haven’t forgotten the pain of losing İstanbul
Continuing to target the West during his nonstop “yes” campaign ahead of an April 16 referendum on a switch to an executive presidency, Turkey's...
Turkish court rules to keep woman who insulted Atatürk in prison
A Turkish court on Thursday ruled for a continuation of the imprisonment of a woman who was arrested for allegedly insulting Atatürk, the founder...
Third suspicious disappearance: Teacher dismissed in post-coup crackdown not seen for 14 days
Cengiz Usta, a 44-year-old teacher who was dismissed from his post as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup purge of state-institutions, has been missing since...
UN launches probe into deployment of foreign fighters to Libya by Turkish government: report
UN rapporteurs sent a joint letter in June to the Turkish government seeking further information about its role in the recruitment, financing, transportation and deployment...
Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara
Alaettin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia's capital...
Turkish businessman and civil activist Kavala detained at İstanbul airport
Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and chairman of the İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, was taken into custody by Turkish police upon...
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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.
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