SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna

Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...

İstanbul mayor appears in court on charges of insulting election officials

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appeared at the first hearing of his trial at an İstanbul court on Monday on charges of insulting election officials...

Turkish gov’t reluctant to assign 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors on basis of security...

Turkish government has reportedly not assigned at least 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors, who have still been waiting for the security/intelligence investigation to be...

Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey: Violation of the principle of legality and no...

Download PDF This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...

Human rights activist Gergerlioğlu: Turkish prisons full of mothers, babies and pregnant women

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a prominent human rights activist and former head of human rights association Mazlum-Der, has brought the babies, pregnant women and mothers...

Turkey ranked 116th among 140 countries in global rule of law index

Turkey was ranked 116th among 140 countries in the rule of law index published by the World Justice Project (WJP) on Wednesday, Turkish Minute reported. Turkey ranked...

İstanbul Bar files complaint against Minister Soylu over his ‘break the legs’ order

The İstanbul Bar Association has filed an official complaint against Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu over his call for policemen to “break the legs”...

ECtHR faults Turkey for canceling 3 academics’ passports after 2016 coup

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as...

CoE’s head Jagland to visit Turkey over rule of law, human rights

The head of the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, is going to visit Turkish capital Ankara on Feb. 15 on a...

Turkish gov’t facilitates organized crime, fights political opponents: report

The Turkish government’s role in the country’s escalating organized crime activities is scrutinized in the recently published Global Organized Crime Index 2023 released by...
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