COMMENTARY — UN terror list implicates Turkey in jihadist enterprise
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The United Nations’ (UN) growing sanctions list of terrorists reveals the terrible fact that the permissive and encouraging environment for the radicalization...
Turkish mafia leader threatens newspaper boss, columnists over report
Notorious mafia leader Alaattin Çakıcı threatened Karar daily boss Mehmet Aydın and six columnists in a written statement posted on his “official” Instagram account...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s ultra-nationalist ally targets journalists who ‘defamed’ his party
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ultra-nationalist ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ran an advertisement in a number of newspapers...
Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency harasses exiled journalist Vatandaş
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has harassed yet another Turkish journalist who has been forced to live abroad, contributing to the intensified campaign of...
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...
Preliminary autopsy of DBP official in Turkey’s Suruç shows 7 knife wounds to vital...
The cause of death of Esvet Şenyaşar, an official of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) who was murdered last week in a hospital...
Turkish gov’t increases budget for religious education by 68 pct in 2018
The Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vastly expanded the number of İmam Hatip (cleric-preacher) schools (İHL) from 450 to 4,500...
Turkish Interior Minister Soylu labels all NGOs and bar associations in Southeast as PKK...
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, who was transferred by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Democratic Party (DP) as he was the leader...
Switzerland issues arrest warrants for 2 Turkish diplomats
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has issued arrest warrants for two Turkish diplomats for allegedly planning to kidnap a Turkish-Swiss businessman,...
German party urges Özil and Gündoğan be dropped from World Cup squad over Erdoğan...
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Tuesday called for Turkish-German soccer players Mesut Özil and İlkay Gündoğan, who had their photographs taken with...
Latest Reports
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan's Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
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
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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...