NBA star Enes Kanter’s father detained in Turkey over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police on Friday detained Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kanter, father of NBA Oklahoma City Thunder player Enes Kanter, who the government seeks to arrest...
Turkey’s chief justice links noncompliance with ECtHR rulings to refugee crisis, terrorism fight
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court attributed the country’s failure to implement judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to its refugee...
Turkey will require foreign social media companies to appoint local representatives: report
Turkey will require foreign social media companies with high Internet traffic to appoint a representative in the country to address concerns raised by authorities...
Turkish man self-immolated in front of municipality due to joblessness
Mustafa Birgül, an unemployed Turkish man, set himself on fire in front of a district municipality in Balıkesir province on Monday. It was reported...
BHRC raises serious concern over violations of international law and fair trial rights in...
Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has released its trial observations from the first substantive proceedings against journalists in Turkey in June 2017....
Pro-gov’t journalist says killing Gülen followers, even their babies a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a journalist working for a number of pro-government media outlets, has said it is a religious obligation to kill all followers of...
Pro-Erdoğan Turks’ violence targeting members of Gülen movement reaches Belgium
Pro-Erdoğan Turks' violence targeting the members of the Gülen movement over a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 has reached Europe, with...
Kurdish singer jailed over ‘spreading terrorist propaganda’ during a concert
Kurdish singer Gökhan Sevinç, known with his stagename ‘Aram Serhad’, has been jailed on alleged charges of ‘spreading propaganda for a terrorist organization’ during...
Presidents of bar associations call for release of lawyers on death fast
The presidents of nine bar associations including those in Turkey’s largest cities of İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir in a video message called for the...
Turkish police detain two Kurdish journalists in İstanbul
The editor-in-chief of pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency Elif Çetiner and journalist Melike Ceyhan have reportedly been detained as they were covering a report in...
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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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Sippenhaft, also known as...