European rights court faults Turkey for withholding inmate’s letter to fiancée
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Turkish prison authorities violated the rights of Emrah Uygun, who was sentenced to more than...
Syrians in Turkey complain of intensified police checkpoints: ‘It’s like living in a prison’
In recent months many unregistered Syrian refugees in Turkey or those who live in provinces other than where they are officially registered have been...
Journalist Nevşin Mengü faces more than 7 years in prison over interview with Kurdish...
Turkish journalist Nevşin Mengü faces up to seven and a half years in prison after publishing an interview with Salih Müslim, one of the...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 251 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 1,422 social media accounts and taken legal action against 251 users over the last week (June 11-June 18) on...
Turkey is de facto dictatorship, says German think tank Bertelsmann Stiftung
The German Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation stated in a recent publication that Turkey can no longer be classified as a democracy and described it as...
Demirtaş’s attorney named lawyer of the week by The Times
Reyhan Yalçındağ Baydemir, one of the lawyers for Selahattin
Demirtaş, a jailed Kurdish politician in Turkey, has been selected as
lawyer of the week...
23,737 Turkish nationals sought asylum in Europe last year, a 38 pct increase over...
A total of 23,737 Turkish nationals sought international protection in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland in 2021, according to an analysis released by...
Refugee family’s newborn stranded in hospital until family pays bill
A hospital in İstanbul has refused to discharge the newborn baby of a refugee family for the past four months because the family has...
183 members of Congress call on US government to address human rights abuses in...
A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States government to...
‘Coup’ trial for Turkey’s prominent journalists starts today
Seventeen suspects, including Turkey’s renowned journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, are ready to appear before an İstanbul court on Monday for...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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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...