UN report tells some 2,000 dead since truce with PKK collapse in Turkey
UN investigators found some 2,000 people were killed in 18 months of fighting, and accuse Turkish forces of serious human rights violations. The killings,...
Detention warrants issued for 102 people at Agriculture Ministry over alleged Gülen ties
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 102 people working at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock over alleged...
Jailed journalist Şık says he is a ‘referendum hostage’ for being in ‘no’ camp
Prominent journalist and Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ahmet Şık, who was arrested last December on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda, said on Thursday that he...
Journalist Hasan Cemal’s trial over columns on Kurdish settlement process begins
The trial of renowned Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal over his columns in 2013 that dealt with a settlement process for Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish problem...
Woman detained while showing newborn baby to jailed husband
S.Ö., whose husband was jailed a few weeks before she gave birth to a baby, was detained in Sakarya on March 8 when she...
ECtHR to take up journalist Ilıcak’s case on priority basis
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine on a priority basis an application filed by jailed journalist Nazlı Ilıcak’s lawyer...
Turkey’s Boğaziçi University dismisses its first academic, bringing total to 7,317
Noémi Levy-Aksu, an assistant professor of history at Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University, has been dismissed from her position, the GazeteDuvar.com news website reported on...
Putchist general admits coup involvement, denies Gülen link
Brig. Gen. Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş, who allegedly ordered a group of soldiers to a hotel in Muğla province where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Supreme Court of Appeals cancels HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ’s party membership
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday canceled the party membership of Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who was...
Detention warrants issued for 84 at defense contractor ASELSAN
The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 84 people working at ASELSAN, Turkey’s largest defense electronics company, connected to the...
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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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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: 2025 in Review
During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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