Turkish gov’t jails 108 babies and children more in past 3 months, bringing total...
The number of babies and children aged between 0 to 6, who are being held in Turkish prisons along with their parents, rose from...
Detention period extended another 7 days for 13 journalists on Friday
An İstanbul court has extended the period of detention for another seven days of 13 journalists who were taken into custody last week as...
EP’s Piri says situation in Turkey worsening as EU expresses concern over measures against...
The situation in Turkey is worsening on every visit, the European Parliament’s (EP) Turkey Rapporteur Kati Piri said during a visit to the critical...
Newspaper removes op-ed claiming Turkey asked US to halt Halkbank probes in exchange for...
The pro-government Hürriyet daily on Saturday removed from its website a column claiming that two separate investigations targeting Turkey’s Halkbank are being conducted in...
Turkish court again rules to keep businessman Kavala behind bars
An İstanbul court on Thursday decided once again to keep prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been behind bars on a series...
Turkish court accepts indictment seeking up to 23 years in prison for HDP deputy...
An indictment prepared by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeking between 9,5 and 23 years prison sentence for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
BBC reveals Turkey faced just 15 attacks from Afrin, not 700
A report by the BBC on Tuesday disproved a widely held Turkish claim voiced by the highest echelons of power in Ankara that there...
Turkish court arrests one more Boğaziçi University student and sends him to jail
Another Boğaziçi University student has been arrested by a Turkish court and sent to pretrial detention at İstanbul's Silivri Prison, increasing the number of...
German Social Democrat leader Schulz calls for ban on Erdoğan’s rally in Germany
Martin Schulz, the Social Democrat candidate for German chancellor, has called for a ban on Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political rally in...
Turkish court sentences 25 journalists to long prison terms over alleged links to Gülen...
An İstanbul high criminal court on Thursday gave prison sentences ranging from 25 months to seven years, six months to 25 journalists on terror...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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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...