French national tortured by fellow inmates in Turkish prison due to sexual orientation
Fabien Azoulay, a gay and Jewish French national who is serving 16 years, eight months in a Turkish prison for buying drugs online, was...
Rights court fines Turkey over lifting parliamentary immunity of pro-Kurdish MP
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has fined Turkey for violating the freedom of expression of Filiz Kerestecioğlu, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 2,840 detained, 1,089 jailed over alleged links to...
Turkish government’s massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement and Kurdish groups has continued throughout July 2017 and at least 2840 people...
ECtHR requests Turkey’s defense in case of prosecutors jailed due to MİT trucks probe
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has requested a statement from Turkey regarding the case of four prosecutors who were given lengthy jail...
Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 13 people disappeared in Turkey since July 15 coup attempt
Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist and free speech activist, has called people all around the world to raise their voices for the disappeared people...
Turkey sets clock back 10 years on women’s rights, says Amnesty International
Turkey has set the clock back 10 years on women's rights by withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention and has also set a “terrifying precedent,”...
60 int’l bodies express grave concerns over digital communications in Turkey at UNHRC
Sixty international organisations from around the globe express their grave concern about the growing crackdown by states on the use of secure digital communications...
Wife of inmate suffering from thyroid cancer says husband slowly dying in prison
Ayşegül Karaturgut, the wife of inmate Abdülaziz Örpek, who suffers from thyroid cancer, said on Twitter that her husband is dying slowly in prison...
Turkish gov’t hosts group of Pakistani journalists amid Kaçmaz scandal
As questions persist about the abduction of former Pak-Turk school director in Pakistan Mesut Kaçmaz and his family in Lahore last month, Turkey is...
Turkey’s judicial council promotes judge who defied Constitutional Court ruling
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has promoted judge Akın Gürlek, who presided over an İstanbul court that refused to implement a Constitutional...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
Drawing on opinions of...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report reveals how the Turkish government has transformed its embassies and consulates into instruments of repression over the past decade. Once seen...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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This report examines how children from families targeted in Turkey’s unprecedented post-coup purge have endured the devastating consequences of persecution, social exclusion and...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...