Final days of purge victim highlight human toll of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
Photos from the final days of a former teacher who died in a hospital in September following a heart attack in Kütahya Prison and...
Former police inspector sent to prison to serve sentence for alleged Gülen links
Former police inspector Ahmet Ertekin was arrested on Friday to serve a sentence of more than six years for conviction of links to the Gülen...
Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of pro-Kurdish HDP arrested
Zeyyat Ceylan and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık, the Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were arrested today on the charge of...
Jailed İstanbul mayor hit with fresh charges of ‘political espionage’
Prosecutors have filed new charges of “political espionage” against jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, deepening a months-long legal saga that has already kept the...
Erdoğan says Sweden needs to extradite 130 ‘terrorists’ to Turkey for its NATO bid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded the extradition of some 130 people from Sweden to Turkey whom he called “terrorists” in order for...
Former Turkish minister detained for insulting President Erdoğan
Former minister of health Rıfat Serdaroğlu was detained at Ankara Esenboğa Airport on Thursday and taken to the public prosecutor’s office for questioning for...
Jailed Kurdish politician criticizes peace efforts for ignoring reconciliation between Kurds and Turks
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party, has accused the government of neglecting social reconciliation in its ongoing peace...
Turkish intelligence ordered assassination of exiled journalists Bozkurt and Güven, journalist claims
Independent journalist Erkam Tufan Aytav claimed on his YouTube program on Wednesday that a German woman of Turkish origin was ordered by Turkey’s National...
Prosecutor demands 26 years for 3 minors allegedly tortured under custody
A public prosecutor demanded 26 years of imprisonment for three minors who were arrested in the eastern province of Van in 2019 on charges...
169 workers killed in Turkey workplace accidents in October
At least 169 workers died in workplace accidents across Turkey in October, according to a monthly report by the Health and Safety Labor Watch...
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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...