Amnesty International denies Erdoğan’s accusations about planning a follow-up coup
Amnesty International denied Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s accusation that a group of recently detained human rights defenders were plotting a follow-up to...
Dismissed police officer found dead in Turkey’s Konya province
Melikşah Kültür, a 41-year-old former police officer, who was dismissed as part of an administrative investigation launched against him, was found dead at an...
Professor detained over alleged Gülen links while working at excavation site
Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam, former rector of the Batman University and the head of the excavation team at Hasankeyf’s historical area, was detained as...
Turkey’s main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu urges justice marchers not to carry party flags in...
Chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu called on supporters of the “March for Justice” not to carry any party...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bozdağ says 50,504 arrested since coup attempt
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Friday that since a controversial coup attempt last July, 50,504 people have been arrested and 168,801 are...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says courts will convict many in coup trials by end of 2017
Responding to questions from reporters about the slow prosecution of suspects in a failed coup last July, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said...
Turkish police beat Reyhanlı attack victims, saying ‘Sorry, we thought you were Demirtaş supporters’
Ankara police beat family members of victims of a 2013 terrorist attack in Reyhanlı after a hearing on Friday and then apologized to them,...
Georgia rejects asylum application of Gülen school teacher
Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May...
Turkish pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülen supporters a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for the pro-government Milat and Yenisöz newspapers, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is a “religious...
Veteran journalist Çetinkaya faces risk of dying in Turkish jail
“I don’t want to lose my dad” a message posted on Twitter by Rahime Gül Çetinkaya whose father, a veteran journalist, faces risk of...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
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