Turkish parliament passes disputed bar associations law: report
Turkey’s parliament on Saturday passed a law changing the structure of bar associations, a move that lawyers argue will further undermine judicial independence in...
Erdoğan restores mosque status of Hagia Sophia after court verdict: report
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan restored the mosque status of İstanbul’s Hagia Sophia with a presidential decree on Friday, following a top administrative court ruling,...
[Update] Mother of young cancer patient about to lose an eye: My child will...
Recent test results show that the condition of a 6-year-old boy with stage 4 brain cancer living in Manisa, Turkey, has worsened and that...
Kurdish mayor tortured under police custody arrested by court
A Turkish court has ruled to arrest the ousted co-mayor of Van’s Edremit Municipality, Rojbin Çetin, who was attacked by police dogs and tortured...
46 European Parliament members call on EU to initiate targeted sanctions against Erdoğan government
Forty-six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from different political parties and groups in a letter on Monday to EU High Representative for Foreign...
Prosecutor declines to pursue killing of 13-year-old Kurdish girl, claiming she was a terrorist
A prosecutor has made a decision of no prosecution in the case of 13-year-old Fatma Elarslan, who was killed during a curfew in the...
New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts
Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...
UN Working Group finds deprivation of liberty due to Gülen links arbitrary, unlawful and...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found at its 87th session held between April 27 and May 1, 2020 that the deprivation of...
Second issue of SCF’s weekly newsletter is online
“Turkey Human Rights Dispatch” is the Stockholm Center for Freedom’s (SCF) weekly newsletter. Every Wednesday we share with you the latest developments in the field of...
US: Turkey regularly invoked terrorism law to criminalize exercise of human rights in 2019
In its “Country Reports on Terrorism 2019” released yesterday, the US State Department said Turkey has a broad definition of terrorism and that the...
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