Turkey celebrates Labour Day amid problems of work safety, lack of unionisation
As Turkey marks International Workers Day, or Labour Day, work safety, job guarantees and a lack of organized labor remain key problems for Turkish...
Turkish courts jail 44 more military officers over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts ruled to jail at least 47 people, including 44 military officers on active duty, in İstanbul and Ankara as part of its massive...
Swedish Left Party’s Sjöstedt on Turkey: This is not the sight of a democracy
Swedish Left Party President Jonas Sjöstedt has said in İstanbul that “It’s worrying that when Turkey is facing a crucial referendum on the political...
Turkish police officer, suspended over alleged Gülen links, commits suicide
İbrahim Eski, a police officer who was suspended from his duty in the framework of an investigation carried out as part of Turkish government's...
4,806 passports owned by alleged Gülen followers seized at İstanbul airport in one year
Turkish police have seized 4,806 passports and detained 132 people at İstanbul Atatürk Airport as part of investigations into alleged followers of the faith-based...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP: Party member abducted by masked gunmen
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member and businessman Kamil Acar was abducted by masked gunmen in Diyarbakır province on Thursday night according to...
Turkish court releases Zaman journalists Alkan and Karayeğen pending appeal
The İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court ruled on Friday for the release of journalists Ahmet Turan Alkan and İbrahim Karayeğen, a former columnist and night-shift editor of the...
Turkish gov’t blocks access to Furkan news portal on alleged terror charges
Access to all social media accounts and websites belonging to the faith-based Furkan Foundation, which has been critical to the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Turkish court releases 6 including German journalist Meşale Tolu
An İstanbul court on Monday released German journalist Meşale Tolu along with five others on judicial probation, Cumhuriyet reported.
Tolu, who was detained in April...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in continued imprisonment of MP
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country violated the rights of an opposition lawmaker who was not released from prison despite gaining parliamentary...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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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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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...