Turkish gov’t renames embassy street to protest US support for Kurdish PYD
The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on Monday changed the name of the street on which the US Embassy is located to “Olive Branch,” the name...
Turkish admiral summarily dismissed during NATO assignment tells NPR: Maybe I’m not as safe...
Rear Adm. Mustafa Uğurlu, Turkey’s flag officer at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) based in Norfolk, Virginia, who was summarily dismissed from the military...
THY fires 26 pilots, flight attendants over Gülen links, bringing total to 237
Turkish Airlines (THY) says it has fired 26 more employees over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding...
Journalist Mehmet Çakmakçı sent to jail by Turkish court in Diyarbakır
A Diyarbakır court decided to jail Kurdish journalist Mehmet Çakmakçı, who uses the pen name Şiyar Dicle, pending trial on terrorism charges on Wednesday,...
Turkey’s espionage activities in Malaysia exposed as more details uncovered
The abductions, detentions and extraditions of three Turkish nationals in Malaysia as part of clandestine operation by Turkey’s state security services in cooperation with...
Turkish gov’t detains 69 more over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police on Saturday detained 69 more people as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement. In the central Turkish province of Konya 50 people,...
Turkey’s top court rejects delay to HDP closure ruling
Turkey’s top court has rejected a pro-Kurdish opposition party’s request to defer until after May elections a trial that could end in the party’s...
Turkish court releases Erdoğan critic Hanifi Barış, a Scottish university academic
Lawyer Hanifi Barış, an outspoken Aberdeen University academic who has been jailed in Turkey since July 4, 2018 for posting critical comments on social...
Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputies Yıldırım and Ayhan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status over court rulings against...
EP rapporteur Piri calls on Turkey to release jailed HDP presidential candidate Demirtaş
The European Parliament's (EP) Turkey rapporteur, Kati Piri, has called for the release of jailed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş...
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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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