Turkish governor blocks post-coup victim on Twitter after being asked for help
Yakup Canbolat, the governor of Turkey’s central province of Konya, has blocked a Twitter account that seeks help for a teacher who was hit...
Turkish police once again waiting at hospital to detain Kayseri woman after childbirth
Turkish police have been waiting inside Kayseri-based Tekden Hospital to detain Zeynep Toptaş, who just gave birth to her child, over alleged links to...
668 babies to welcome Eid al-Adha in Turkish prisons
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Six hundred sixty-eight children under the age of 6 will welcome the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayramı) on Friday in jails across...
Turkish general first tortured as putschist, then released for resisting coup
Air Forces Chief of Personnel Maj. Gen. Cevat Yazgılı was first jailed and tortured for allegedly supporting a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...
Zühtü Arslan, president of Turkey’s top court, criticized for bowing to Erdoğan
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM), Zühtü Arslan, has been criticized on social media for bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a...
Jailed Turkish jurist’s daughter says ostracized by professors, classmates before father’s death
Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of recently deceased ex-judge Mustafa Erdoğan, former member of the Turkish Supreme Court of Cassation, said her lecturers and classmates...
JWF report reveals Gülen affiliated science schools, seized by Turkish gov’t, turned into hub...
A report, released by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) on March 2017 on the fate and state of private educational institutions and educators...
Report: US refuses to send F-16 training pilots to Turkey
The United States (US) has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the...
22,000 inmates sleep on jail floors in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on jail floors as the number of prisoners reaches more than 224,000 for the first time...
Interpol helped Harvard educated professor get tortured in Turkish prison
In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture...
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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.
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