Jailed Turkish journalist Soncan to sparrows: ‘I am begging; Don’t build your nests in...
Journalist Emre Soncan (36), who has been jailed in Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul for 762 days and sentenced by a court to seven...
Turkish court jails 33 female students over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court jailed 33 female students pending trial on charges of alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement after they were detained in...
COMMENTARY — Dutch, German intelligence agencies uncover Turkish kidnapping, murder plots
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The secret intelligence cabal directly controlled by the head of Turkey’s notorious National Intelligence Organization (MİT) under direct orders from the Turkish...
Turkish army fire kills Iraqi Kurdish farmer: local official
Turkish army fire killed an Iraqi Kurdish farmer on Friday in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where Ankara has been battling militants,...
Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan daily declares Trump, Pence ‘lunatics of a deviant sect’
The pro-Erdoğan Turkish Yeni Şafak daily claimed on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence are pondering a “crusade,”...
Turkish court acquits gendarmerie sergeant in case of toddler killed by tear gas canister
A Turkish court has acquitted a noncommissioned gendarmerie officer in the case of an 18-month-old toddler who was killed when a tear gas canister...
TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 2,840 detained, 1,089 jailed over alleged links to...
Turkish government’s massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement and Kurdish groups has continued throughout July 2017 and at least 2840 people...
Jailed former co-chair of pro-Kurdish HDP escorted to father’s funeral by gendarmes
Former co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ, who has been in prison since November 2016 on terrorism-related charges, was escorted to...
Over 250K people left Turkey in 2017, 42,5 pct more than previous year
A total of 253,640 people left Turkey in 2017, 42,5 percent over the previous year, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing the Turkish...
Kılıçdaroğlu adopts gov’t narrative, says CHP investigations are corruption probes, not political
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the court-reinstated leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has adopted the government’s narrative on criminal cases targeting the party,...
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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...