5-year-old Turkish asylum seeker in Athens diagnosed with cancer
A 5-year-old boy from İstanbul who along with his mother fled the Turkish government’s post-coup witch hunt to Greece has been diagnosed with leukemia...
SCF, IOHR partner to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with a focus on Turkey
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has partnered with the London-based International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) to commemorate World Press Freedom Day at...
Turkey cannot achieve peace with Kurds without democratic reforms: main opposition leader
Özgür Özel, the chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has said that lasting peace with the country’s Kurds is impossible without...
Increasing hate crimes lead to death of 21 refugees in 3 years in Turkey
At least 21 refugees and asylum seekers were killed in Turkey as a result of increasing hate crimes against them between January 2020 and November 2022,...
Turkey’s social security body refuses to process retirement requests of Gülen-linked people
Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK) is turning down requests for retirement from individuals who have been removed from public jobs or have stood trial...
Turkish court jails all detained employees of pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper
A Turkish court has arrested and put in pretrial detention all detained executives and employees of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing...
Report: Turkish gov’t used German spy software on opposition politicians, activists
"Opposition protesters in Turkey were reportedly deceived into downloading a spy app made by a German firm Germany has previously vowed to block...
Turkish gov’t cancels press cards of 889 critical journalists in 2016
The press cards of a total of 889 critical journalists have been canceled in Turkey, according to statistics released by Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit...
ECtHR president cites insufficient resources as reason for jailed journalists’ cases still pending at...
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) President Róbert Ragnar Spanó has given the court’s insufficient resources as the reason that the applications from two...
120 heavily armed police raid 15 houses to detain students suspected of Gülen links
Police armed with heavy weapons and drones raided the homes of 15 people – mainly university students -- in the southern Turkish province of...
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