Germany demands immediate release of Turkish activist Kavala
Germany’s foreign minister demanded on Monday that Turkish activist Osman Kavala be “released immediately” after an İstanbul court sentenced the critic of President Recep...
Turkey’s RTÜK pressures TV stations not to televise famous singer Sezen Aksu’s song referencing...
Turkey's broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has made phone calls to Turkish television stations, pressuring them not to televise a...
19 women killed by men, 22 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Nineteen women were murdered by men in Turkey in October and another 22 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Turkish authorities blocked parole for 16 political prisoners: rights groups
Rights groups in Turkey accused prison authorities on Friday of unlawfully obstructing the release of political prisoners, claiming that 16 inmates at Istanbul’s Bakırköy...
Nearly a year after earthquakes, residents of Turkey’s southeastern provinces still struggle to access...
Eleven months after two devastating earthquakes hit Turkey’s southeastern provinces, grassroots workers said people living in the region were still struggling with a lack...
3 detained as Boğaziçi University restricts access to campus due to Erdoğan visit
Police detained at least three people at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University on Friday as the school administration restricted access to the campus and moved classes...
Gülen movement group calls for independent coup inquiry on 10th anniversary
A US umbrella group for organizations inspired by the late Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has called for an independent investigation of Turkey’s 2016 coup...
Dismissed gov’t official forced to work as mover dies in traffic accident
Ensar Erdem, 47, a former official who was dismissed from Turkey’s Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry by a government decree as part of purges that...
AKP, MHP reject motion to investigate suspicious death of female student in eastern Turkey
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its far-right ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Wednesday rejected a parliamentary motion to investigate...
ByLock data tool of ‘malicious prosecution,’ not evidence: report
Data acquired from the ByLock smartphone application that Turkish courts accept as evidence of terrorist activity are not legal or admissible pieces of evidence...
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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.
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Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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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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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...