Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputies Baydemir and Irmak of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament on Thursday stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Selma Irmak of their parliamentary status due to court...
PACE concerned over lack of domestic remedy for purge victims in Turkey
Two rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic...
COMMENTARY — UN terror list implicates Turkey in jihadist enterprise
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The United Nations’ (UN) growing sanctions list of terrorists reveals the terrible fact that the permissive and encouraging environment for the radicalization...
Turkish consulates in Germany send Erdoğan propaganda letter to expatriates
As voting continues abroad for the elections to be held in Turkey on June 24, all Turkish citizens registered at the Turkish consulates in...
Human rights bodies: 5,268 people tortured under Turkey’s state of emergency
A total of 5,268 people, including 133 children, were reportedly subjected to torture in Turkish prisons, under police custody, outside of detention facilities, during...
Turkish government jails Karatay, only Christian Chaldean citizen, in Silopi
Petros Karatay, who was detained by Turkish police on Tuesday, has been sent to prison for “being a member of a terrorist organisation," according...
Military officer arrested over alleged Gülen links talks about dire conditions in Turkish prisons...
A military officer who has been kept under pre-trial detention for one year due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has...
VIDEO — EP President says democracy cannot exist without media freedom, expresses concern on...
Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, said genuine democracy cannot exist without a media freedom, expressing concerns on jailed journalists in Turkey.
Speaking...
Turkey ranks 105th out of 153 countries in regard of safety of women
Turkey has ranked 105th out of 153 countries according to a global index released by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and the...
Turkish police’s armored vehicle hits 8-year-old child in Şırnak’s Cizre
A speeding armored vehicle hit a child playing in the street near in Sur neighborhood of Cizre district of Şırnak province in Turkey. It...
Latest Reports
New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement
STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...
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...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...