State-owned bank declines application for earthquake assistance loan submitted by post-coup purge victim
Turkish state-owned Vakıfbank has declined the request of a former prosecutor who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
33 women killed by men, 24 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-three women were murdered by men in Turkey in August, and 24 more died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...
Human rights violations cannot be considered the internal affairs of a country, says former...
Former European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judge Rıza Türmen said human rights violations are not the internal affairs of a country and that...
Turkey jails former teacher over Gülen links despite disabled son’s need for maternal care
A former teacher was jailed on Tuesday on terrorism charges due to her alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement despite her appeal for...
PACE committee urges action against transnational repression, reveals Turkey’s tactics
Unanimously adopting a draft resolution on May 23 based on a report by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s...
CoE seeks face-to-face talks with jailed mayors including İmamoğlu
The Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities announced Monday that it will conduct a fact-finding visit to Turkey and seek face-to-face meetings with...
Jailed journalist Ahmet Böken contracts COVID-19 in prison
Ali Ahmet Böken, 49, a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who has been in prison over alleged links to the Gülen movement since...
Turkish court sentences journalist Polat to pay TL 10,000 fine due to a 2012...
Fatih Polat, the editor-in-chief of Turkey’s leftist Evrensel daily, will pay a fine of TL 10,000 (around $1,500) for revealing the identity of a...
Turkey’s HSK refuses to review claims of witness tampering by prosecutors in lawyer’s murder
Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has refused to consider a complaint against two prosecutors who investigated the 2015 murder of a prominent...
Latest Reports
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
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...