İmamoğlu tells court diploma annulment aimed at blocking his presidential bid
Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has told a court that prosecutors pressured İstanbul University into annulling his university diploma last year, decades after it...
European rights court rules Turkey violated rights of 93 people arrested over alleged Gülen...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of 93 people accused of links to the Gülen movement...
Turkey detains 24 including seven public officials over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities detained 24 people, including seven public officials, in coordinated raids across 11 provinces on Monday over alleged ties to the faith-based Gülen...
Turkey seizes billions in assets, shuts down hundreds of Gulen-linked institutions since 2016 coup...
Turkish authorities have seized or frozen billions in assets and closed hundreds of institutions linked to the faith-based Gülen movement, according to official figures...
Kurdish media reports that Yezidis in Afrin afraid of a genocide by Turkish military
Members of the Yezidi (Ezidi) community in the Kurdish-run enclave of Afrin of northwest Syria told the news outlet Kurdistan24 on Saturday that they are concerned...
Turkish court sentences former TRT cameraman for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
Binali Erdoğan, a cameraman who used to work for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), has been given a suspended jail sentence of...
Anti-terror police detain woman just hours after giving birth on alleged Gülen links
Anti-terror police have detained Fadime G., who gave birth just several hours ago in Alanya Başkent Hospital in Antalya province, over alleged links with...
28 employees at opposition-run municipality detained over alleged rigging of public tenders
Twenty-eight employees at an opposition-run district municipality in İstanbul have been detained in two separate investigations for allegedly rigging public tenders, Turkish Minute reported,...
Turkey orders detention of 21 people over alleged Gülen movement links
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 21 people across six provinces over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, continuing a yearslong crackdown,...
Scores of miners detained while protesting unpaid wages outside Turkey’s energy ministry
Miners from silver producer Eti Gümüş and coal-mining company Doruk Mining were detained in Ankara on Monday while protesting unpaid wages, severance claims and...
Latest Reports
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...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...