Internet freedom continues to decline in Turkey: Freedom House report
A yearly report by Freedom House on global Internet freedom reveals that Internet freedom continued to decline for a third year in a row...
Turkish prosecutors launched over 1.5 million terrorism-related investigations between 2016 and 2020: report
Public prosecutors initiated 1.576 million investigations on allegations of terrorism between 2016 and 2020, concluding 208,833 of them, the BirGün daily reported, citing the...
Ankara systematically tortures supporters of Gülen movement, Kurds, Turkey Tribunal rapporteurs say: report
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, started proceedings in Geneva on Monday...
University students spend night in park to protest high accommodation prices
A group of university students began sleeping in a park in İstanbul on Sunday to protest the high price of accommodation, while the Turkish...
Turkish court sentences 20 female university students to prison over Gülen links
Twenty female university students were handed down prison sentences on Friday for alleged links to the Gülen movement, sparking an outcry among activists and...
Turkey Tribunal: Panel of judges hears victims of torture, rights activist
The panel of judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, heard...
CoE fails to start infringement proceedings against Turkey in Kavala, Demirtaş cases
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has failed to start infringement proceedings against Turkey due to the country’s non-compliance with European...
Former bureaucrat who turned up in Ankara prison after 9 months missing has lost...
Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former Turkish bureaucrat who had been missing since December 2020 and has been found in Ankara’s Sincan Prison, has lost...
Tribunal to adjudicate Turkey’s rights record
The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey including torture, abductions, shortcomings in freedom...
Cases of Turkish journalists before ECtHR drag on as they languish in jail: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has yet to deliver verdicts on the cases of dozens of journalists from Turkey, many of whom...
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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...
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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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Sippenhaft, also known as...