29 including a mother with Parkinson’s arrested over Gülen links
Turkish authorities arrested 29 individuals, including a mother with Parkinson’s disease, in İstanbul on Friday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the...
Amnesty starts campaign calling on Turkish authorities to investigate enforced disappearance of purged civil...
Amnesty International issued an urgent call for action on Monday for the investigation of the suspected enforced disappearance of Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former...
Council of Europe asks Turkey to detail steps toward Kavala’s release by October 14
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has given Turkey until October 14 to explain what concrete steps it has taken or plans to...
Man accused of attacking students with machete appointed prosecutor in Turkey
A man who was filmed attacking students with a machete during a violent clash at a university in 2017 has been appointed as a...
Journalist given suspended sentence for mocking Erdoğan’s donation campaign
A veteran Turkish journalist has been handed down a suspended sentence of seven months, 15 days for provoking public hatred and enmity with a...
Turkish prison denies lawyer conditional release despite qualifying good conduct score
A Turkish prison board has denied a lawyer conditional release, saying he had not demonstrated good behavior, even though his good conduct assessment score...
Family of 14-year-old Kurd pressured by district governor to withdraw mistreatment complaint
The family of a 14-year-old Kurdish teenager who has accused police officers of physical assault has been urged by the local district governor to...
English PEN launches campaign to send solidarity letters to Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader
English PEN, one of the world’s oldest human rights organizations that champions the freedom to write and the freedom to read, has launched a...
Turkish police records reveal profiling of 207 university students over relatives’ alleged Gülen links:...
Confidential police records obtained by Nordic Monitor reveal that Turkish authorities profiled 207 university students using information about investigations, prosecutions and other measures involving...
Turkey’s top court contradicts own ruling in case of teacher sanctioned for sharing peace...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no rights violations in the case of a teacher who faced disciplinary action for sharing on social media a...
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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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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...