US says not to tolerate individuals using intimidation to stifle freedom of speech
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said there will be no tolerance for those using intimidation and violence to suppress freedom of expression...
JWF releases ‘The State of Turkey’s Children: Victims of Unlawfulness’ report
New York-based the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) has launch a social media campaign on Twitter with the hashtag #Freedom4Children via JWF`s official account...
Jailed Turkish journalist Ali Bulaç not receiving medications as prescribed
Jailed veteran columnist and renowned theologian Ali Bulaç has not been given the prescribed medications he is required to take daily by the authorities...
Turkey’s Erdoğan vows to criminalize adultery
Turkey should again consider criminalizing adultery, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday, revisiting an issue that caused outrage among secular Turks...
Turkish court seeks Interpol Red Notice for prominent publisher Zarakolu
A Turkish court has decided to seek an Interpol Red Notice for Ragıp Zarakolu, a publisher, writer, and free speech activist, as well as...
81 inmates died in Turkish prisons in 2022: report
At least 81 prisoners in Turkey died in 2022, according to a new publication released by the Purge Museum (Tenkil Müzesi in Turkish), Bold...
Report: Syrian women in Turkey’s refugee camps forced into prostitution
Syrian women who had to fled from their war-torn country to Turkey with their families have been forced into prostitution in the refugee camps, which...
CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...
Human Rights Watch: Torture in custody, abductions continue in Turkey
People in Turkey accused of links to terrorism or with the 2016 military coup attempt have been tortured in police custody while others have...
Orhan Pamuk says so many innocent people in Turkish prisons
Nobel laureate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has said Turkey has imprisoned so many innocent people in arbitrary ways very recently, leading him to feel...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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