Turkey investigates 271 social media users over comments on currency crisis
Investigations have been launched into the users of 271 social media accounts due to their posts about the recent depreciation of the Turkish lira...
Turkey’s unrelenting rights violations against Gülen movement continue: HRW
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2025 has documented extensive human rights abuses in Turkey, including continued crackdowns on alleged members of the...
Scale of environmental disaster in Giresun continues to cause concern
Leakage from a flotation pool used for storing poisonous waste at a mining facility in Giresun continues to worry environmentalists, voicing their concerns on...
Four killed in Iraqi airstrike blamed on Turkey
Four people were killed on Monday in an airstrike blamed on Turkey in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Kurdish sources.
Turkey often...
Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence over cartoon tweet
A columnist for a leading Turkish opposition daily has been handed down a suspended sentence of nine months on charges of “inciting hatred and...
5 years later, Turkish woman still haunted by strip-search in police custody
A young woman detained over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in a case that made nationwide headlines five years ago has said...
Prison administration bans jailed Kurdish leader’s novel for ‘obscenity’
A prison administration in northwestern Turkey has refused to give a novel written by a jailed Kurdish politician to an inmate on the grounds...
Van mayor sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges in retrial
A Turkish court has sentenced Van Mayor Abdullah Zeydan to almost four years in prison on conviction of “aiding a terrorist organization,” the BBC...
Exiled journalist indicted for insulting President Erdoğan in report on convicted jihadist
Swedish-based Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt was indicted in Turkey over an article he wrote about a convicted jihadist, with the public prosecutor claiming that...
Press Freedom in Turkey: 2024 in Review
Press freedom in Turkey deteriorated further in 2024, with journalist associations calling it “a lost year” for press freedom. Turkish journalist groups warned that press...
Latest Reports
Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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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...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report reveals how the Turkish government has transformed its embassies and consulates into instruments of repression over the past decade. Once seen...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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This report examines how children from families targeted in Turkey’s unprecedented post-coup purge have endured the devastating consequences of persecution, social exclusion and...
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...