Turkish gov’t detains 9 people in İzmir over social media posts
The Turkish government detained nine people on Friday in the city of İzmir as well as in the Bergama, Seferihisar and Menemen districts over...
EP Rapporteur Piri suggests formal suspension of accessions talks with Turkey
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s (EP) rapporteur on Turkey, said in a report presented to the EP on Wednesday that the continuation of a negotiating...
PEN declares jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş an ‘honorary member
PEN Center Germany, part of PEN International, has declared jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for two years, an...
Woman with 45-day-old baby arrested as part of witch-hunt in Turkey
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Wednesday reported another human rights violation in Turkey, saying that a woman...
Int’l law associations: Turkey in breach of its international law obligations
International law associations have sent a joint letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calling on him and the Turkish government to ensure and...
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court given 11 years
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan has been handed down a prison sentence of 11 years, three months on charges...
US report highlights violations of religious freedom in Turkey
The International Religious Freedom Report 2018 released by the US State Department on Friday addresses gross violations of religious freedom in Turkey.
The annual report...
Workers prohibited from speaking in Kurdish at İstanbul construction site
A construction company in İstanbul has sent a letter to one of its subcontracting firms saying that no language other than Turkish should be...
Turkish court challenges top court reversal of Cumhuriyet journalists’ conviction
A Turkish court on Thursday decided to challenge a Supreme Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the court’s previous conviction of 12 former Cumhuriyet...
Turkish businessman dies from cancer after belated release from prison
Medeni Arifoğlu, a Turkish businessman who was jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement, has succumbed to cancer after he was belatedly released...
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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...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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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...