Turkey jails activist protesting land survey for coal mine project in Muğla

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the pretrial detention of local activist Esra Işık for protesting a land survey linked to a coal mine...

Police raid another main opposition-run municipality in southern Turkey

Turkish police on Wednesday raided city hall in the opposition-run Mersin Metropolitan Municipality in southern Turkey as part of a corruption investigation, a move...

İstanbul city staff perp walked in front of media, sparking condemnation

Footage showing opposition mayors and İstanbul city officials being led single file in handcuffs by police has attracted backlash from the main opposition party...

Journalist allegedly beaten, mistreated in police custody: report

Journalist Sedat Yılmaz, who was detained on Saturday in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, was allegedly mistreated and beaten while in police custody, the...

Turkey arrests 2 teenagers for denigrating religious values, sentences one for insulting Atatürk

A Turkish court in Aydın has ruled to arrest two teenagers out of three who were detained on allegations of denigrating the public’s religious...

Human rights organizations urge Turkey to end bans on Saturday Mothers vigils

Amnesty International and several human rights organizations including the Civil Rights Defenders, the Civicus Global Alliance and EuroMed Rights have called on Turkish authorities...

Turkey detained 77 people in 2 weeks of operations targeting Gülen movement: minister

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Tuesday that 77 people had been detained in nationwide operations over the past two weeks as part...

EU rapporteur questions ‘strange delay’ in ECtHR case of businessman jailed over Gülen links

European Parliament Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor has expressed concern over the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) delay in ruling on the case...

Turkish court sentences 10 TRT journalists to prison over alleged links to Gülen movement

A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 10 journalists who used to work for Turkish public broadcaster TRT to between six years, three months and...

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Download PDF This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
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