New PACE president raises concern over Turkey’s failure to enforce ECtHR rulings
Petra Bayr, the newly elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has said Turkey faces a serious problem of...
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...
HRW documents Turkey’s authoritarian trajectory in 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that Turkey’s government consolidated its authoritarian trajectory in 2025 with an unprecedented campaign against the country’s main...
Turkish TV anchor to testify in Erdoğan insult investigation
HALK TV anchor and journalist Şule Aydın has been ordered to give testimony to a prosecutor in Istanbul after an investigation was launched to...
Critics slam celebrity manager’s sentencing on coup charges
Critics, including a European Parliament member and opposition politicians, have denounced an İstanbul court’s 12-year, six-month sentence for celebrity manager Ayşe Barım over the...
Erdoğan rival hardens tone, courting Turkish nationalists
Turkey’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to send millions of migrants back home in a strident message aimed at winning the support of an ultranationalist...
Turkish cartoonist detained over alleged insult of President Erdoğan
Turkish cartoonist Öznur Kalender has been detained on accusations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a cartoon, the Halk TV news website reported.
Kalender...
3 injured in Germany during Erdoğan victory celebrations
Three people were injured in Germany during celebrations of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in a historic election runoff, extending his 20-year rule until...
Former Kosovo intel chief sentenced in retrial over illegal deportation of Turkish nationals
A Kosovo court has again sentenced former intelligence chief Driton Gashi to more than four years in prison for his role in the illegal...
Turkey issued detention warrants for 92 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 92 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group...
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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...