Turkish justice minister claims only 30 journalists jailed in Turkey
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed that there are only 30 journalists in Turkey’s prisons and that some jailed individuals may have wrongfully...
Turkish government’s witch hunt targeting Gülen movement in full throttle
Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ announced on Wednesday that a total of 1,094 cases have been launched against those who are allegedly affiliated with the...
Full-fledged hate speech by Erdoğan: Gülen movement became ‘unthinking slaves’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has added new insults to his rich collection of hate speeches and defamation targeting Gülen movement on Wednesday and...
Pressure and terrorist threats on Christians on the rise in Turkey
The Association of Protestant Churches has released a report which revealed that hate speech, attacks and terrorist threats against Christians increased in Turkey in...
58 passengers denied flights from Istanbul to US in four days
58 people have been unable to depart from Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport over the last four days due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting immigrants...
Forty academics from Istanbul University charged with terror over alleged Gülen links
Forty Istanbul University academics, who have been accused of terrorism over alleged links to Gülen movement, appeared in an İstanbul court on Tuesday.
Ten out...
İHD Co-Chair Keskin: UN’s WHO should investigate Turkish prisons
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Co-chair Eren Keskin has called the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate Turkish prisons to assess the situation...
Freedom House: Turkey posts second worst decline in freedoms in a decade
Turkey has shared the second most dramatic decline in freedoms in the last decade with African nation Gambia, according to new ranking by Freedom...
The assets of the Kurdish Institute of Istanbul seized
Assets of the Kurdish Institute of Istanbul, which was closed down in December 2016, have been seized by Turkish government through the Saving Deposits...
DİTİB claims hate speech among members against Jews, Christians not known by administration
The German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) has claimed that its central administration was not aware of anti-Semitic and anti-Christian messages posted by...
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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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.
In recent years...