Selective and weak: Critics slam outgoing CoE commissioner’s poor record on Turkey
As Dunja Mijatović’s mandate as the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights came to a close on April 1, rights groups criticized the...
Bedridden woman whose mother was denied care allowance due to alleged affiliation with Gülen...
Sevdegül Güler, a bedridden woman whose mother was denied a care allowance by Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies due to her alleged...
ECtHR faults Turkey over lengthy pretrial detention of 8 people
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of eight people by holding them in pretrial detention for...
Kurdish villagers terrorized at military checkpoint in SE Turkey
A video circulating on social media showed a group of Kurdish villagers being verbally harassed and threatened by soldiers at a checkpoint in the...
Widespread or systematic imprisonment of individuals with alleged links to Gülen movement may constitute...
Widespread or systematic imprisonment of individuals with alleged links to the Gülen movement may constitute crimes against humanity, said the UN Human Rights Council’s...
Man tells FBI he witnessed Turkish governor’s son kill missing student, details alleged state...
A Turkish man held in the United States has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that he saw the son of a Turkish...
4 judges associations in Europe send letter to Turkish justice minister for release of...
Several leading European judges’ associations have sent a joint letter to Turkish Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç calling for the denial of the conditional...
Turkey’s top court denies release of former colonel suffering from advanced stage MS
Mustafa Özcan Çay, a former staff colonel convicted on coup charges, was denied release from prison by Turkey’s Constitutional Court despite his inability to...
CoE rights chief urges Turkey to release LGBT activists detained in nationwide crackdown
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) human rights commissioner on Tuesday called on Turkey to release anyone detained for LGBT rights or other civil society...
High school student convicted of insulting Erdogan
A high school student in Diyarbakır was sentenced to over seven months in prison on Thursday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...
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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...