Jailed Turkish journalist, novelist Ahmet Altan calls indictment about journalists a ‘judicial porn’
Renowned jailed journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan harshly slammed the prosecutor who prepared a controversial indictment against him and other journalists in a court...
Turkish court arrests one more Boğaziçi University student and sends him to jail
Another Boğaziçi University student has been arrested by a Turkish court and sent to pretrial detention at İstanbul's Silivri Prison, increasing the number of...
Former teacher acquitted after ECtHR ruling on violation of his rights
Former teacher Yasin Özdemir, who was sentenced to seven months, 15 days in prison for his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was...
Turkey’s top court: Emergency rule compatible with ECtHR and CoE decisions
In the reasoned opinion for a verdict that rejected the individual petitions of individuals accused of participation in a failed coup, the Turkish Constitutional...
Sweden refuses to extradite 4 people on Turkey’s list, including a former police chief
The Swedish government has decided to reject Turkey's request for the extradition of four Turkish citizens, including former police chief Murat Çetiner, Swedish public...
Turkish gov’t detains 26 more military officers over links to Gülen movement
Twenty six active duty soldiers have been detained in Kocaeli as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement.
The military members were taken...
BfV: MİT is after Turkish dissidents in Germany
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is collecting intelligence on Turkish dissidents and the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Germany, according to the...
Turkish gov’t detains 527 people for alleged links to Gülen movement over last week
The Turkish government has detained 527 people across Turkey over the past week (May 14-May 21) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...
Constitutional Court became ‘entirely ineffective’ as domestic remedy in 2022: censorship report
The Freedom of Expression Association’s (İFÖD) EngelliWeb initiative has said in its 2022 annual report on internet censorship in Turkey that the Constitutional Court became an...
Turkish citizen, companies designated as global terrorists by US Treasury
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) a Turkish citizen...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
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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...