Turkish court sends woman to prison on coup charges hours after surgery
Ayşe Bulut Yanılma, a female teacher who used to work at a prep-school affiliated with the Gülen movement, has been arrested by a Turkish...
Turkey has dismissed 4,562 military personnel in post-coup purge
Turkey has purged 4,562 military personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces since the end of a two-year state of emergency declared after a coup...
Turkish Justice Minister Gül: Defending Erdoğan equates to defending Medina
Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül on Sunday said defending Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against attacks is equal to defending Medina, Ottoman Sultan...
Presidency seeks to strip opposition leader and 9 deputies of immunity
A presidential summary of proceedings seeking the removal of the parliamentary immunity of Turkey’s main opposition leader and nine opposition deputies has made its...
Jailed Turkish journalist Ali Bulaç not receiving medications as prescribed
Jailed veteran columnist and renowned theologian Ali Bulaç has not been given the prescribed medications he is required to take daily by the authorities...
Court in eastern Turkey convicts members of family mistreated by police during house raid
A court in eastern Turkey has sentenced to prison two women from a family that suffered mistreatment at the hands of police officers in...
RTÜK: 70 radio and TV channels gagged under the rule of emergency in Turkey
The High Commission of Radio and Television (RTÜK), Turkey’s state broadcasting watchdog, said 33 television channels and 37 radio stations belonging to 54 different media companies...
Turkish FM says over 100 members of Gülen movement abducted abroad and brought to...
Over 100 alleged members of the Gülen movement have been abducted abroad by Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) and brought back to Turkey as...
Two more German citizens detained in Turkey over political accusations
A spokesperson for German Foreign Ministry said two German citizens were detained in Turkey’s coastal city of İzmir for political accusations. “The Federal Government...
Turkey falls to ‘Not Free’ status in Freedom House’s ‘Freedom in the World 2018’...
Turkey’s freedom status has declined from 'Partly Free' to 'Not Free' in “Freedom in the World 2018: Democracy in Crisis,” the annual report released...
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...