Turkish court sentences former civil servant to 9 years for alleged ByLock use
A civil servant who was removed from his job by a government decree has been handed down a jail sentence of eight years, nine...
Turkish gov’t spends about $3,5 billion on prisons in last three years
Turkey has spent $3,4 billion on prisons in the past three years, over five times the amount spent on research and development for education, according...
Turkish court releases German citizen jailed on Erdoğan insult charges
A German citizen of Turkish origin, Hüseyin M., who was arrested in late August on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in...
Turkish gov’t detains 100 people, mostly military personnel, over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government detained at least 100 people, mostly military personnel, across Turkey on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting...
COMMENTARY — CoE asks Erdoğan to stop promoting political Islam in Europe
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy,...
Turkish police detain unspecified number of pro-Kurdish HDP politicians
Turkish police detained an unspecified number of politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in eastern Kars province on Friday.
According to a report...
Turkey’s ruling AKP rejects motion to investigate death of 2 soldiers due to hypothermia
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has rejected a parliamentary motion that sought to shed light on the deaths of two soldiers due...
Turkish gov’t takes sweeping measures against academia
The Turkish government is continuing to take sweeping and targeted measures against the country’s higher education sector with at least 990 scholars, staff, and...
Turkish prosecutor charges Kurdish singer Tunç with alleged insult of President Erdoğan
A Turkish prosecutor in İstanbul has charged Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunç with insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
According to a report by the pro-Kurdish Fırat...
Turkey’s purged doctors to be able to work at private hospitals as AKP backtracks...
Thousands of doctors who have been fired from their jobs at state-run hospitals as part of a massive purge launched by Turkey’s Justice and...
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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...