Former military cadet arrested to serve sentence for links to Gülen movement
A former military cadet was arrested on Tuesday at the Izmir airport to serve a seven year, six month sentence for links to the...
WHO: 167,000 people displaced from Afrin need urgent aid
An estimated 167,000 people have been displaced by recent hostilities in the Afrin province of northwestern Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...
Seasonal worker in Turkey who alleges brutal abuse by employers slams prolonged legal battle
A Kurdish seasonal worker in Turkey who said he was brutally abused by his employers has criticized the judicial process for dragging on for...
Top court rejects 2 Kurdish politicians’ applications claiming unlawful arrest in Kobani case
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected individual applications filed by two former lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) claiming that arrest warrants issued...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams France’s Macron for offering to mediate between Turkish gov’t and SDF
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday slammed France after French President Emmanuel Macron offered to mediate between Turkey and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian...
Celebrity manager jailed over Gezi Park protests to appear in court on July 7
Ayşe Barım, a well-known manager of Turkish television stars who has been charged with “attempting to overthrow the government” due to her alleged role in the...
90 percent of Turks struggling to make ends meet amid economic crisis: poll
Nine out of every 10 people in Turkey, which is currently in the middle of an economic crisis as food and fuel prices have...
137,000 Turks moved abroad in 2018
A total of 137,000 Turkish nationals moved abroad in 2018, representing an increase of 20 percent over the previous year, the Sözcü newspaper reported...
Female student arrested following mass crackdown on Gülen movement attempts suicide
A female student who was arrested shortly after being detained in a mass crackdown on people linked to the faith-based Gülen movement last week has...
Court arrests 16 Kurdish journalists after 8 days in custody in SE Turkey
Sixteen journalists out of 22 people – the vast majority of them members of the press – who were detained in southeastern Diyarbakır province...
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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...
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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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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Sippenhaft, also known as...