Israeli footballer leaves Turkey after being detained for Gaza message
An Israeli footballer left Turkey on Monday after being detained overnight and charged with incitement to hatred for displaying a message about the Israel-Hamas...
Turkish military carries out new airstrikes against militants in Iraq, Syria: report
Turkey said it had destroyed 23 targets in overnight airstrikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria, a further escalation of the conflict...
Travel ban imposed on son of Somali president over fatal accident lifted after court...
Turkish prosecutors lifted a travel ban on Mohamed Hassan Sheik Mohamud, the son of Somali President Hasan Sheikh Mohamud, after he testified in court...
Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in access ban imposed on X accounts
In a promising development amid increasing online censorship in Turkey, the country’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the banning of access to...
Human Rights Watch says Turkey’s authoritarian order consolidated in 2023
The May 2023 re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the victory of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliamentary elections consolidated an authoritarian...
Prosecutor demands aggravated life for man accused of brutally murdering Syrian refugees
An İzmir prosecutor has demanded an aggravated life sentence for Kemal Korukmaz, who allegedly burned three Syrian construction workers to death in November 2021,...
Turkey’s top court rules against deportation of Syrian refugee for drunk driving
The Constitutional Court has found a decision to deport a Syrian migrant for drunk driving to be in violation of his rights, carrying a...
Veteran actor investigated for calling Erdoğan a ‘thief’ in 2016 tweet
A 76-year-old Turkish actor is facing charges of insulting the president for referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a “thief” in a tweet...
38 people in 12 provinces detained over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police detained 38 people in raids carried out across the country for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by...
X again restricts access to accounts criticizing Erdoğan as Turkey’s local elections approach
The X social media platform announced on Wednesday that it has taken action against 12 accounts in Turkey “to prevent the X service being...
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Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy
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This report examines how the sweeping measures introduced in Turkey following the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 evolved over the next decade...
UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights Violations...
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This report analyzes UN findings on Turkey’s post-2016 counterterrorism measures targeting people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement.
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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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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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...