Businessman fleeing persecution in Turkey dies in Sarajevo public park
Recep Güneş, a Turkish businessman who sought asylum in Bosnia after fleeing the Turkish government’s post-coup purge, died on Monday at a public park in the...
Cancer patient woman seeks whereabouts of son abducted in Turkey’s capital
The mother of Ümit Horzum, a dismissed public servant who was reportedly abducted from his car in Ankara earlier this month, has asked for...
RSF: Turkey is the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists
Turkey has moved up three places to 154th in Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) 2020 World Press Freedom Index, which examines the status of press...
Ex-minister confirms authenticity of evidence against him in 2013 graft probe
Erdoğan Bayraktar, the former Turkish minister of environment and urban planning, said on Sunday the evidence against him included in the case-file of the...
Italian academics call on Pope to raise voice against Turkish President Erdoğan
As Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made an official visit to the Vatican on Feb. 4-5, 2018, the Italian academics shared their worries...
Turkish lawyer reveals illegal police surveillance of former prisoner
A Turkish lawyer has claimed that the police have been illegally monitoring the daily activities of a former inmate who had previously been imprisoned...
Erdoğan’s propaganda machine Anadolu news agency targets Turkish journalist covering Atilla case
The state-run Anadolu news agency, run by a former advisor of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as propaganda machine of his despotic regime,...
Turkish gov’t detains 21 members of critical religious group, including its leader Kuytul
Turkish government has detained some 21 members of the critical religious Furkan Foundation, including its founder and leader Alparslan Kuytul, on Tuesday in the...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ nominated by European Parliament for Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament (EP) has announced on Friday that the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) leaders Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdaş, who were jailed...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP deputy asks minister to resign over ‘Gülen propaganda’ in textbooks
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mehmet Tüm has called on Turkish Minister of Education İsmet Yılmaz to resign, claiming that the...
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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...
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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...