Presenter of Turkey’s Erdoğanist Akit TV vows to start killing civilians in İstabul’s secular...
Ahmet Keser, the presenter for “Gün Başlıyor,” broadcast on the radical Islamist Akit TV channel, which is a staunch supporter of Turkey's Islamist and...
Turkish court sentences Kurdish journalist to 8 years in prison
A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish journalist Muhammet Doğru to 8 years and 6 months in prison on Monday. It was reported that journalist...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained dozens of people on Tuesday across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members...
Turkish police to journalist: If you don’t speak, we’ll throw you off balcony
Turkish police have reportedly raided the house of journalist Buğrahan Aydoğan in Çorlu district of Tekirdağ province on Sunday night for the second time to...
Turkish gov’t indicts foreign academic on terror charges for allegedly using ByLock
An academic from Kosovo who used to work for the İzmir Institute of Technology has been indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist...
Turkish physics teacher detained over Gülen links, baby left to neighbor’s care
Derya Erkan, a physics teacher in the Black Sea province of Samsun, was detained on Monday for alleged membership in the Gülen movement and...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist media targets Dutch deputies, threatens them for recognizing Armenian genocide
Turkey's pro-government media has been targeting five Dutch parliamentarians with a Turkish background, calling them traitors after the Tweede Kamer officially recognized the Armenian genocide,...
Students, parents protest over Afghan-Turk schools’ transfer to Maarif Foundation
Parents of the Afghan-Turk school students took out to the Kabul streets on Saturday to protest the government’s decision over banning a schools’ activity...
Turkish gov’t detained 845 people to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive
Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday announced that 845 people have been detained on terror charges due to their protests or posts on social media...
Turkish gov’t detain 646 people in one week over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 646 people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement in the...
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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...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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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...