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...
JWF expresses concerns over extra-judicial executions of high profile detainees in Turkish prisons
The Gülen movement-affiliated Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), which is based in New York, has expressed its concerns on "the clear trend of increasingly...
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...
Lawyer says children of woman arrested on Gülen links ‘traumatized’
The lawyer of a woman arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement said in an interview that her two children, aged 12 and...
UN launches probe into deployment of foreign fighters to Libya by Turkish government: report
UN rapporteurs sent a joint letter in June to the Turkish government seeking further information about its role in the recruitment, financing, transportation and deployment...
Romanian NGO runs full-page ad to show solidarity with journalist sought by Turkey
Declic, a nongovernmental organization in Romania, on Thursday ran a
full-page ad in the country’s most highly circulated newspaper to show
solidarity with Turkish...
Turkish children suffer from malnutrition amid economic crisis, says expert
Hacer Foggo, founder of the Istanbul-based Deep Poverty Network, said in a recent interview that children in Turkey were disproportionately affected by poverty and...
CoE Committee of Ministers urges Turkish authorities to immediately release Kavala
In a resolution adopted on Thursday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), the organization’s statutory decision-making body, expressed profound concern that...
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...
Mother of former military cadet stages protest in Ankara, demanding justice for imprisoned...
Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...
Latest Reports
New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement
STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...
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...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...