Swedish Left Party’s Sjöstedt on Turkey: This is not the sight of a democracy
Swedish Left Party President Jonas Sjöstedt has said in İstanbul that “It’s worrying that when Turkey is facing a crucial referendum on the political...
Rector says signing peace declaration used as criterion in purge of academics
Professor Mehmet Emin Arat, rector of Marmara University, has said academics who have been dismissed from the university through government decrees were selected according...
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...
Families of Paris killings’ victims demand to reopen the probe
The families of three Kurdish women who were assassinated in Paris on Jan. 9, 2013, have filed a petition to relaunch the investigation on...
Prosecutor issues detention warrant for 100 over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 100 people across 31 provinces who include high-level administrators over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement....
1,734 arrested, 18,000 on detention list on terror propaganda charges on social media
A total of 1,734 people have been arrested since a failed coup attempt on July 15 while 18,194 others on a detention list on...
Journalist Aslı Ceren Aslan arrested in Şanlıurfa
It has been reported that the editor-in-chief of Özgür Gelecek newspaper, Aslı Ceren Aslan, who was detained on Feb. 5, 2017 in Şanlıurfa, has...
Turkey detains 21 more teachers over coup charges
At least 21 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, basing on...
Amnesty International: Torture and ill-treatments in police detention increased in Turkey
An annual report of the Amnesty International (AI) draw attentions to increase in cases of torture and other ill-treatments in police detention, from curfew...
Police strip jailed purge victim, beat for 22 days, threaten to rape wife
O.K., a purge victim in Zonguldak province who was detained on Aug. 1 last year over links to faith-based Gülen movement, was tortured by...
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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...