HDP says gov’t has given security forces a blank check for civilian killings in...
Amid news stories that a Turkish drone attack killed one civilian and wounded three others in Hakkari on Friday, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says indictment against guards scandalous, US protecting Gülen movement
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday called a recent US indictment against his bodyguards for violently attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., “scandalous,”...
Turkey’s CHP: Some 50 post-coup victims committed suicide, 14 disappeared in 2017
Nearly 50 people committed suicide after being subjected to post-coup rights violations while 14 others were forced or attempted to disappear between January 1...
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...
Author Erdoğan says imposition of travel ban by Turkish gov’t is psychological torture
Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who was released on December 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem...
Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 13 people disappeared in Turkey since July 15 coup attempt
Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist and free speech activist, has called people all around the world to raise their voices for the disappeared people...
Report: High-ranking Turkish intelligence officer, police chiefs among asylum seekers in Germany
Some high-ranking police chiefs and a member of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) top brass are among asylum seekers in Germany, the Die Welt...
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...
19 including 15 guards of Turkey’s Erdoğan indicted for attacking protesters in US
Indictments have been issued for 19 people, including 15 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, for attacking protesters in Washington...
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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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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...