Erdoğan claims journalist Yücel German agent, PKK representative, hid in consulate
As tension with Germany has escalated over imprisonment of the German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish journalists charged for terror over comments on US-indicted sanction buster Zarrab
A Turkish public prosecutor who accused 29 journalists on terrorism charges cited articles and Twitter messages on US-indicted gold trader Reza Zarrab, who bribed...
12 academics, university staff detained in Muğla over alleged Gülen links
Twelve academics and staff from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University were detained on Thursday over their alleged links with faith-based Gülen movement that Turkish authorities...
2,988 consecutive life sentences sought for 38 suspects in coup trial
A total of 2,988 consecutive life sentences are sought for 38 out of 221 suspects in an indictment prepared into a failed coup attempt...
PACE rejects Turkey’s candidate list for post of judge at ECtHR
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has rejected a three-person list Turkey has submitted for the post of judge at the...
Bomb threat in German town that cancelled Turkish minister’s speech
German police on Friday called for the evacuation of the city hall in the southwestern German town of Gaggenau after it received a bomb...
Pro-gov’t Star daily says jailed Die Welt reporter ‘not a journalist, a PKK hit-man’
The front page of the pro-government Star daily on Thursday bore a headline that targeted jailed Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel saying he is...
United Nations told Christians in Turkey under crackdown
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a non-governmental organization in a special consultative status with the UN, has said religious minorities especially Christians...
Pro-Erdoğan passenger threatens ‘no’ voters on bus, saying they will be slaughtered after referendum
A passenger on a public bus in İstanbul who claimed to be a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened a group of...
Akşener reminds justice minister how she was prevented from speaking
Meral Akşener, previously a candidate for chairmanship of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has reminded Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ how a program of hers...
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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.
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