Turkish activist Saçılık says hunger striker Nuriye Gülmen is now 37 kg and at...
Veli Saçılık, a Turkish leftist protester and a friend of Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who started a hunger strike in order to protest...
Mueller investigating Flynn role in alleged plan to hand Gülen over to Turkey
An alleged plan that involved former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania in return for...
Turkish police detain prosecutor Sarıkaya over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police on Friday detained Ferhat Sarıkaya, a prosecutor who was expelled by Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Thursday over his alleged...
Prominent journalist Cemal gets suspended sentence on terror charges
Renowned Turkish journalist Hasam Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of 15 months for allegedly disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization in...
Security forces detain 4 people trying to flee persecution by Turkish gov’t to Greece
Turkish border security forces detained 4 alleged followers of the Gülen movement in a border zone in Edirne province on Wednesday as they were...
Turkish student gets 2-years suspended prison sentence over popular anti-Erdoğan video
Twenty-one years old university student Ali Gül, who appeared in a popular No campaign video in the run up to the April 16 presidential...
Mother of three, purge-victim of Turkish government, dies of heart attack
Rana Öztürk, a mother of three children and the wife of Engin Öztürk, who has been under arrest for 15 months over alleged ties...
CCBE: Independence, integrity and freedom of expression of the legal profession at stake in...
Brussels based Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) expressed “serious concerns over the recent repressions by the Turkish authorities on the...
United Nations: The new social media bill will further undermine the right of people...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell in a press statement on Tuesday expressed concern over the moves by the...
Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
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...