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Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review

Download PDF This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...

Turkey working on plan to reduce migrant population in designated provinces

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has reportedly started to prevent migrants from settling in 16 provinces in an effort to reduce their concentration in those areas,...

HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question regarding underage inmates confined with adults in Maltepe Prison

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit in a parliamentary question addressing the Turkish Ministry of Justice asked if it was true that...

Erdoğan aide says ‘age of inequality is over’ about US criticism of media ban

An aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed a statement from a US State Department official who criticized a recent move by...

Another woman detained while visiting imprisoned husband

N.A., a Turkish literature teacher who was left unemployed after her school was shuttered as part of post-coup emergency rule, was detained when she...

Rights watchdogs to EU: Put respect for human rights at center of relations with...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in a joint letter on Tuesday to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel...

Man claims he was beaten for hours at Istanbul police station

A man who was detained in Istanbul claimed he was tied to a chair and beaten for two hours by the police, the Duvar...

Alevi organizations call on Turkish authorities to abolish compulsory religious classes and recognize cemevis...

Alevi organizations on Sunday staged demonstrations in several provinces of Turkey demanding that compulsory religion classes in schools be abolished and that cemevis, Alevi...

Woman arrested to serve sentence for conviction of Gülen links, leaving 3 children to...

Seher Gök, a mother of three, was arrested on Wednesday to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement, leaving her three...

5 journalists who reported on villagers tortured and thrown from helicopter acquitted

A Turkish court has ruled to acquit five journalists who were indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for reporting on an...

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Last defence of jailed journalist Ünal: Remember me as the man advocating a Quran verse

Jailed journalist Altan: Lawlessness has spread like humidity stains over Turkey

HDP lawmakers submit parliamentary question about pregnant women in Turkish prisons

Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review

Turkey working on plan to reduce migrant population in designated provinces

HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary question regarding underage inmates confined with adults in Maltepe Prison

Erdoğan aide says ‘age of inequality is over’ about US criticism of media ban

Another woman detained while visiting imprisoned husband

Rights watchdogs to EU: Put respect for human rights at center of relations with...

Man claims he was beaten for hours at Istanbul police station

Alevi organizations call on Turkish authorities to abolish compulsory religious classes and recognize cemevis...

Woman arrested to serve sentence for conviction of Gülen links, leaving 3 children to...

5 journalists who reported on villagers tortured and thrown from helicopter acquitted

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