Turkey referred to UN Security Council over arrested judge of UN legal panel
Turkey is infringing the judicial independence of a United Nations (UN) war crimes tribunal by holding one of its judges in prison despite an...
Turkish gov’t detains 920, arrests 45 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish Interior Ministry has stated in a press release that 920 people were detained by police and 45 people were arrested by courts over...
Injured during PKK attack, veteran sergeant being denied surgery after post-coup dismissal
Dismissed as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt, Sgt. Aziz Demir, who was injured amid clashes between the military and the outlawed Kurdistan...
MİT asks YÖK to dismiss 910 more academics from universities
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has sent a list of 910 academics to the Higher Education Board (YÖK), who should be dismissed from universities over...
Yeni Asya journalist arrested over terror charges
Naciye Nur Ener, a journalist from the critical Yeni Asya daily, has been arrested on charges of being a member of a terror organization,...
German justice minister calls Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks ‘absurd’
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has described Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks ‘absurd’ who accused Germany of employing practices similar to those...
Once shut down by Taleban, now Afghan gov’t plans to hand over Turkish schools...
Political Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan led autocratic Turkish regime’s months long pressures have given fruits and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to...
With husband already in jail, woman along with two children detained in post-coup witch...
Nearly seven months after former public worker B.K. was arrested, his wife and two children were also detained as part of a government witch...
Gov’t won’t renovate clashes-hit cities unless Kurds vote ‘Yes’ in referendum
The ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) officials in Turkey’s eastern part has been threatening locals in the run-up to the presidential referendum,...
Austria calls for EU-wide ban on Turkish referendum campaigning
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern on Sunday called for a European Union-wide ban on campaign appearances by Turkish politicians to avoid having individual member countries...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...