16 detained for ByLock use, Bank Asya transactions
Turkish police on Friday detained 16 people as part of an operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement due to their use of...
Turkey becomes 149th most peaceful country in the world under Erdoğan’s rule
Turkey has become the 149th most peaceful county among 163 countries in the world, according to the Global Peace Index 2018 (GPI) report released by...
Pro-Kurdish party delegation heads to Rojava as protests spread along Turkey-Syria border
A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has traveled to Iraq’s Kurdistan region en route to Rojava in northeastern...
20-year-old woman takes own life, saying she saw no future under AKP rule
A 20-year-old woman died by suicide on Monday evening, saying the results of the May 14 elections in Turkey left her in despair and...
Journalist Dündar calls attention to Turkey’s political prisoners via replica of prison cell in...
Journalist Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkey’s critical Cumhuriyet daily who lives in exile in Berlin, has made a bid to attract public attention...
Jailed Gülen sympathisers accused of ‘not supporting Turkish national football team’
A man from Turkey's Iğdır province identified as A.B., who shared a cell with people jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement, told Turkish...
Turkey seeks retrial of 87 left-wing opposition members over Red Crescent tent sale protests
Turkish prosecutors have appealed the acquittal of 87 opposition party members who were prosecuted for protesting the Red Crescent’s sale of tents to a...
Turkish prisons at 18 percent overcapacity: report
Turkish prisons are holding 51,320 more prisoners than their overall capacity, the BirGün daily reported, citing the latest data from the Directorate General of Prisons...
Fired for alleged links to PKK, denied reinstatement for ties to Gülen movement,...
The story of Hasan Kaya, a former bureaucrat who was fired from his job over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
Turkish court rules to release 2 police officers from prison in Hrant Dink case
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to release police officers Yakup Kurtaran and Özkan Mumcu, who are standing trial in a case involving the...
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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.
Drawing on opinions of...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report reveals how the Turkish government has transformed its embassies and consulates into instruments of repression over the past decade. Once seen...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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This report examines how children from families targeted in Turkey’s unprecedented post-coup purge have endured the devastating consequences of persecution, social exclusion and...
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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This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...