Sensing Erdoğan victory, Turkish youth ponder life abroad
Hasibe Kayaroğlu hoped Turkey’s presidential election would usher in changes. Instead, days before a runoff Sunday that increasingly looks like a coronation for conservative...
Turkey’s state-run news agency harasses Turkish rights activist in the US over Times Square...
Three employees of Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) harassed the president of US-based advocacy organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) on Sunday after...
Six former Turkish national football team stars indicted over alleged Gülen links
An indictment seeking from 7 to 15 years in prison for six former Turkish footballers over links to the Gülen movement was accepted by...
Turkish court orders arrest of 47 people, including left-wing opposition members and journalists
A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the arrest of 47 people, mainly members of the left-wing Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), as well...
Erdoğan sworn in for third term as Turkish president
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was sworn in for a third term as president on Saturday, promising to serve “impartially” after winning a historic runoff...
Human Rights Watch calls on Turkish Parliament not to expel opposition deputy Gergerlioğlu
Any move by Turkey’s parliament to use opposition lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu’s wrongful conviction for a social media post as a pretext to strip...
Erdoğan’s ultranationalist ally: Turkey could stage fresh elections if alliance loses parliament
Turkey could stage another election if the alliance between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement...
Wife of Gezi Park defendant calls for justice after husband’s MS relapse in prison
Tayfun Kahraman, a city planner imprisoned over the 2013 Gezi Park protests, has been hospitalized again following an acute relapse of multiple sclerosis (MS),...
Twitter co-founder says Turkey, India, Nigeria threatened to shut down platform: report
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who resigned as CEO in 2021, said the social media platform was threatened with being shut down in Turkey, India...
Representatives of diplomatic missions visit İHD to show solidarity with Turkey’s human rights defenders
The European Union Delegation to Turkey and representatives from 11 diplomatic missions in Ankara on Tuesday visited Özturk Türkdoğan, head of the Human Rights...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...