47 detained across Turkey for helping families of people jailed over alleged Gülen links
Forty-seven people have been detained in an İzmir-based operation that was also conducted in İstanbul, Ankara, Samsun and Muğla provinces for helping the families...
State-owned bank declines application for earthquake assistance loan submitted by post-coup purge victim
Turkish state-owned Vakıfbank has declined the request of a former prosecutor who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
Nevruz celebrated in Turkey under shadow of deadly quakes sees detention of hundreds
This year’s Nevruz celebrations, which lacked the enthusiasm of previous years due to massive earthquakes that claimed the lives of tens of thousands in...
EU pledges 1 billion euros for Turkey’s earthquake reconstruction
The EU’s executive arm will provide 1 billion euros to help Turkey rebuild after devastating earthquakes last month, Agence France-Presse reported, citing European Commission...
US senators introduce bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act
Four members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Cardin of Maryland, and Republicans Marco Rubio...
58 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Fifty-eight people, including teachers, businessman, active duty and dismissed military officers and former cadets, have over the past week been detained on warrants issued...
RSF calls on Turkish authorities to end censorship of earthquake coverage
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Turkish authorities to put an end to all obstacles to press freedom and to respect the investigative...
Prison administration restricts telephone access of Islamic preacher critical of government
Turkey’s Ağrı Prison is restricting the access of Alparslan Kuytul, leader of the Furkan Foundation, an anti-government religious group, to phone calls, which are...
Top court finds no rights violation in ban on 2016 gay pride march in...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the government did not violate the right to peaceful assembly by banning a gay pride march in Ankara...
PACE committee reminds member states to avoid xenophobic, racist approach to refugees, migrants
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee for Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has said member states can integrate migrants and...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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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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