HR activist: Turkish gov’t human rights watchdog blind to abuses
The Turkish government’s human rights watchdog is blind to abuses happening practically in front of its eyes, human rights lawyer and outspoken government critic...
Mother of 3 arrested on Gülen charges, leaving children to the care of relatives
A mother of three was arrested on Thursday for alleged links to the Gülen movement, leaving her children to the care of relatives, the...
Torture, ill-treatment rampant in Turkey following 2016 coup: report
A report jointly published by London Advocacy and Human Rights Solidarity shows how, based on interviews with victims as well as reports from prominent...
Woman who suffered brain hemorrhage in police detention handcuffed to hospital bed
A female detainee who suffered a brain hemorrhage in detention and was unable to move was handcuffed by police to her hospital bed, the...
European Parliament approves report asking for suspension of talks with Turkey
In a move that was expected, the European Parliament on Wednesday approved a report asking for the suspension of EU accession talks with Turkey,...
Jailed Turkish journalist Emre Soncan: European politicians disloyal to European values
Turkish journalist Emre Soncan (36), who has been jailed in Turkey's notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul for 667 days and sentenced by a court to...
Türk Telekom denies service to Kurdish woman for not speaking Turkish
Fevziye Başaran (65), who only speaks Kurdish, her native language, was denied service by Türk Telekom in the southeastern city of Batman for failing...
Family of jailed former police officer hasn’t seen him in 2 years due to...
The family of former police officer Ali Osman Kayan, a father of four serving a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkish courts sentence 106 military personnel to aggravated life imprisonment over July 15 coup...
Turkish courts sentenced 106 military personnel on Monday to aggravated life imprisonment over their alleged involvement in a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...
Journalist sentenced to prison for reporting on parliament speaker’s sons’ offshore companies
Former Cumhuriyet reporter Pelin Ünker on Tuesday received a one year, one month and 15 day sentence and was ordered to pay 8,860 Turkish...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...