Turkey withdraws as main contributor in CoE, cites monitoring process and awarding jailed judge...
Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decided to withdraw from its "main contributor" status in the Parliamentary Assembly of...
Euro court rejects Turkey’s request for additional time to submit defense in jailed journalists’...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected Turkey’s request for additional time to submit its defense in cases against jailed daily Cumhuriyet...
Turkey’s Erdoğan takes aim at ‘LGBTI quota’ of a district municipality under opposition administration
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in a speech he delivered to neighbourhood heads (mukhtars) on Thursday that “(Main opposition Republican People’s Party)...
Turkish gov’t briefly detains İHD co-chairman Türkdoğan in Ankara
Turkish government has briefly detained Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of Human Rights Association (İHD) of Turkey and some other human rights defenders, including İHD General Accountant...
Wives of jailed Turkish police chiefs who led 2013 corruption operations detained
Wives of jailed police chiefs Yakub Saygılı and Kazım Aksoy, who led corruption and bribery operations against the government of Turkish autocratic President Recep...
Turkish PM Yıldırım takes anti-Gülen witch-hunt to the US
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has called on Muslims in the US to distance themselves from people linked to the Gülen movement, inspired by...
Four co-workers of Turkey’s Halkbank to testify online in Atilla case
US federal judge Richard M. Berman has granted a request from Turkey’s Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was arrested in New...
Turkey’s ruling AKP votes down probe on Paradise Papers at Parliament
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voted down a parliamentary motion to investigate revelations in recent leaks of offshore financial dealings by high level...
Turkish gov’t detains 21 people in İzmir over social media posts
Turkish anti-terror police detained 21 people over social media posts in the western province of İzmir on Wednesday. The detainees, facing accusations over their social...
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...
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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
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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.
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