Former teacher dismissed over alleged Gülen links dies of cancer at 45
İsmihan Şenol, a former literature teacher dismissed by emergency decree over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died of ovarian cancer in Eskişehir...
More than half of requests for information from Turkish authorities went unanswered from April...
More than half of 70 requests for information from Turkish authorities tracked between April and June went unanswered, while nearly three-quarters of the responses...
Dismissed prison guard convicted over alleged Gülen links dies after traffic accident
Kamil Dayan, 37, a former prison guard dismissed by emergency decree and convicted over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died Tuesday from...
Former teacher who suffered stroke after dismissal over alleged Gülen links dies at 56
Mustafa Demirhan, a former mathematics teacher dismissed by an emergency decree over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died at a hospital in...
Turkey’s top court rejects rights violation claim in ByLock conviction despite landmark ECtHR ruling
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a terrorism conviction based on the use of the ByLock encrypted messaging app did not violate the principle...
Turkish TV star-turned-mayor detained in new operation targeting opposition
Turkish police on Thursday detained an award-winning television actor who became an opposition mayor in an Ankara district as part of a corruption investigation,...
Five children, 90-year-old among 20 detained at Turkish mining protest
Turkish gendarmes detained some 20 people, including five 14-year-old teenagers and a 90-year-old woman, on Wednesday after local residents blocked heavy machinery from entering...
Kurdish mayor ousted by Turkish authorities dies in exile in Germany at 72
Hasan Basri Fırat, a former Kurdish mayor who was removed from office in 2016 and later left Turkey amid a government crackdown on Kurdish...
Turkish court blocks YouTuber’s website and video on presidential security
A Turkish court has blocked access to YouTuber Halil İbrahim Balsak’s website and, separately, to a video posted on his YouTube channel, examining how...
Turkish court details similar abuse of interns after parliament rejected systematic-harassment claims
A Turkish court has said restaurant workers at parliament used their positions to sexually abuse and harass four underage high school interns, whose independent...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
Drawing on opinions of...
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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2024.
Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...