CHP deputy asks about 7 abducted purge victims in parliamentary question
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question to the Parliament Speaker’s Office in which he...
Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
Turkish gov’t dismisses 7,655 people from Health Ministry over alleged links to Gülen movement
At total of 7,655 people were dismissed from the Health Ministry as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, according to official...
Erdoğan aide: It has become clear that Turkey cannot trust NATO allies
Chief advisor to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and columnist İlnur Çevik on Thursday wrote that US concerns about Turkey’s purchase of an...
HRW: Chemical castration for those convicted of sex offences would violate human rights
Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Tuesday that the Turkish government's plan to implement chemical castration for those convicted of sex offences against children would...
Interpol helped Harvard educated professor get tortured in Turkish prison
In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...
Turkish gov’t instructs prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects
The Turkish Ministry of Justice has instructed high criminal court prosecutors to ban lawyers under investigation from defending suspects and convicts accused of terror...
Turkish police officers guarding Erdoğan on night of coup attempt arrested, judge says
Emirşah Baştoğ, presiding judge of the Muğla 2nd High Criminal Court, where a trial of suspected putschist soldiers is being heard, said on Saturday...
Pro-Erdoğan media, fanatics continue to harass critical Turkish journalists in US
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Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan media and fanatics continue to harass dissident Turkish journalists who live in exile in the US. Former Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Abdulhamit Bilici...
Latest Reports
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
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 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.
In recent years...