Turkey’s top court strikes down law restricting passports over security concerns
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has annulled a law that allowed the Interior Ministry to deny passports to individuals deemed a security risk, ruling the...
Turkey’s top court found rights violations in more than 2,500 applications in first 9...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court found at least one violation of human rights in each of 2,529 applications in the first nine months of this year,...
Turkish courts sentence 3 Kurdish mayors on terror-related charges
Turkish courts have sentenced three elected Kurdish mayors to prison on terrorism-related charges in separate trials, Turkish media reported.
The mayors are Mehmet Sıddık Akış,...
AKUT co-founder Nasuh Mahruki arrested over social media posts
Nasuh Mahruki, founder and former president of the Turkish Search and Rescue Association (AKUT), was arrested pending trial of an investigation of his social...
Turkey launches thousands of investigations under ‘disinformation law,’ jails 33 people in two years
Turkey has launched 4,590 investigations and jailed 33 people under its 2022 disinformation law, the Media and Law Studies Association reported.
Data shared during a...
Jailed Kurdish leader seeks release from prison to contribute to new peace process
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş is demanding his release from prison to contribute to a new peace process in Turkey aimed at the laying...
Int’l press advocacy groups urge Turkish gov’t to withdraw espionage amendment
Prominent international media freedom groups called on the Turkish government to withdraw proposed amendments to an anti-espionage law in Turkey shortly after the government...
Landlords in İstanbul accused of exploiting refugees with deportation scheme
Some landlords in İstanbul are allegedly exploiting refugees by demanding large upfront rental payments and then orchestrating their deportation to pocket the rent, according...
Sweden deporting Turkish national to Kosovo violates Convention against Torture, UN body warns Sweden
The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) decided that Sweden’s decision to deport a Turkish national tied to the faith based Gülen movement to Kosovo...
Turkey’s chief justice links noncompliance with ECtHR rulings to refugee crisis, terrorism fight
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court attributed the country’s failure to implement judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to its refugee...
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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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey: Violation of the principle of legality and no...
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...