İHD report: 68 children killed during clashes in eastern, southeastern Turkey in 2016
Sixty-eight children were killed, 150 detained, 40 arrested and six were tortured during clashesbetween Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in...
CHUV report: People sheltering in Cizre basement first killed, then burned
A report by scientists from the Vaudois University Hospital Center (CHUV) in Switzerland showed that residents who took shelter in the basement of a...
Two more women who just gave birth detained over links to Gülen movement
Filiz Y., a 30-year-old woman who gave birth at Mersin City Hospital last night, has been detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
12-year-old Furkan denied departure from Turkey for treatment in Cuba dies of cancer
A 12-year-old child has died of brain cancer several months after Turkish border agents seized his and his parents’ passports at İstanbul Atatürk Airport,...
83-year-old arrestee shares same prison cell with grandchild
83-year-old Hacı İsa Sezek is being kept in the same prison cell with his 29-year-old grandchild as Turkey exploits ambiguous terror laws to imprison...
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...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş arrested
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş, who was detained and then released after she gave her testimony on Saturday, was arrested...
Anti-terror police detain woman just hours after giving birth on alleged Gülen links
Anti-terror police have detained Fadime G., who gave birth just several hours ago in Alanya Başkent Hospital in Antalya province, over alleged links with...
HDP Deputy And Spokesperson Bilgen and MP Botan detained again
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and the party’s spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen, who was detained at Ankara Esenboğa Airport on Sunday, has been detained...
625 detained, 42 arrested in anti-Gülen operations in one week
A total of 625 people were detained, with 42 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past...
Latest Reports
New report sheds light on how Erdogan gov’t weaponizes mechanisms to prevent terrorist financing...
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Friday released its latest report, “Turkey's Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey
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This report focuses on how the criminal prosecutions and trials conducted on charges of terrorism since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...
Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2021. Increasing pressure on the...
Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday released its latest report, “Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics,”...
Turkey’s Abuse of INTERPOL: How Erdoğan Weaponized the International Criminal Police Organization for Transnational...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has abused INTERPOL in a number of ways.
The Erdoğan government has...
Left Behind to Die: COVID-19 in Turkish Prisons and Discrimination Against Political Prisoners
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This report focuses on amendments made to the Law on the Execution of Sentences and Security Measures in order to decrease Turkey’s prison...
Turkey’s Judicial Council: Guarantor or Annihilator of Judicial Independence
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This report focuses on Turkey’s top judicial administrative body (HSK, previously HSYK) and the country’s judicial architecture. It provides an assessment of the...
Human rights in Turkey: 2020 in review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2020. Rising pressure on the...