Report: 409 women killed, 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017
A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will...
İYİ Party’s Akşener: Pro-Erdoğan civilians receiving weapons training in camps in Turkey
İYİ (Good) Party Chairperson Meral Akşener has claimed (pro-Erdoğan) civilians have been receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat...
Turkish gov’t detained 493 people last week, 62,895 in 2017 over alleged links to...
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 493 people were detained last week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement bringing the...
Lawyer under investigation, accompanied by infant, put in pretrial detention by Turkish gov’t
An İstanbul lawyer, identified only by the initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her 3-month-old baby as part of an investigation into...
Turkish opposition launches campaign to lift Turkey’s 17-month-long rule of emergency
A pro-democracy organisation called "United for Democracy -- Demokrasi için Birlik" has launched a campaign for the lifting of the state of emergency in Turkey, reported by...
Report: Ten prisoners in Turkey on hunger strike, their health worsening
The health of 10 women prisoners in Turkey has deteriorated since they went on hunger strike to protest against a new security measure, a...
Authorities ban ‘The Little Prince’, ‘Peter Pan’ in Turkish prisons
Turkish authorities have reportedly prohibited "Robinson Crusoe", "The Little Prince", "Ali Baba and Forty Thieves", "Peter Pan" and "Tom Sawyer" in Turkish prisons, according to...
Mother and son phone conversation reveals Turkish guardians in murder of Kurdish prisoner
A telephone conversation regarding 40-year old Kurdish prisoner in Balıkesir’s Kepsut prison beaten to within an inch of his life has revealed recently that...
Report: Four people falsely accused by Turkish gov’t of ByLock use committed suicide
At least four people under investigation for use of the ByLock mobile app, which they had never downloaded, have committed suicide, according to human...
Report: Turkish government detained 52 woman journalists in 2017
Fifty-two woman journalists were detained and 9 of them were sent to prison across Turkey in 2017, according to report revealed by Mesopotamia Woman Journalists...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
STOCKHOLM—The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan's Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...