Turkish Parliament investigates sexual abuse claims involving high school interns in its cafeteria
The Turkish Parliament has opened an internal investigation into claims that high school student interns working in its cafeteria were sexually abused by staff...
CHP insists İmamoğlu remains presidential candidate despite legal pressure
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which has been under a legal crackdown for more than a year, has reiterated that jailed İstanbul...
Turkey’s designation of Gülen movement as terrorist group lacks legal basis, UN rapporteurs say
UN special rapporteurs have said Turkey’s designation of the faith-based Gülen movement as a terrorist organization fails to meet due process standards and does...
UN rapporteurs warn Turkey over allegations of continuous discrimination against the Kurdish community
United Nations special rapporteurs have expressed serious concerns regarding the alleged rights violation of two Kurdish families in Istanbul and Mersin province.
The family in...
Turkey detained 24 journalists in 2025, RSF barometer on abuses shows
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) logged 24 cases of journalists detained in Turkey in 2025, including YouTube hosts, television anchors and staff of a leading...
Turkey’s new prison courtroom can accommodate mass trials of hundreds
Turkey is building a huge new courtroom inside its largest prison complex on the outskirts of İstanbul that can accommodate the mass trials of...
Kurdish folk singer sentenced to prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced Kurdish folk singer Pınar Aydınlar to six years, three months in prison on terrorism-related charges, ruling against the...
Former Council of Europe rights chief says ECtHR has ignored the pattern of Turkey’s...
A former human rights commissioner at the Council of Europe said the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had weakened its own credibility by...
Bedridden former inmate jailed over alleged Gülen links dies of heart attack
Bekir Bayram, a 76-year-old former inmate jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement who had become bedridden in prison, died of a heart...
29 women killed, 22 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in November
Twenty-nine women were murdered by men in Turkey in November, while another 22 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
In recent years...