Turkish teacher, jailed over alleged Gülen links, gives birth to her 3rd child in...
Under arrest as part of Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement since Nov. 3, 2016, history...
Turkish Journalist Vahit Yazgan behind bars for 505 days over anonymous letter
Vahit Yazgan, bureau chief of shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, has been under arrest over an anonymous letter alleging that...
Turkish journalist Şen gets years of prison sentence over being relative of major coup...
Journalist Erdal Şen together with Ali Sami Yıldırım, the two relatives of Turkey’s alleged major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, have been handed down a jail sentence of...
Jailed journalist Altan: They can lock me up, but not my imagination
Prominent Turkish novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan, who has been in pretrial detention since Sept. 23 of last year, said in an essay published...
Woman, detained at hospital and jailed with 3-day-old baby over alleged Gülen links, released
Aysun Aydemir, was detained at the hospital just after giving birth to a baby in an elective caesarean procedure and subsequently arrested by a...
Turkish police detains woman shortly after delivery in Ankara over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish women, Nazlı N. Mert, who has just given birth to a baby at private Lokman Hekim Hospital in Ankara's Etlik neighborhood, was...
Hundreds of families flee Syrian town of Afrin under Turkish military attack
Hundreds of families fled the Syrian town of Afrin for nearby villages held by pro-Syrian government forces overnight as Turkish forces shelled the town,...
82-year-old man suffers fatal heart attack as Turkish police struggle to detain him
Yusuf Topal, an 82-year-old Turkish man, died from a heart attack on Saturday while police were trying to take him into custody in Giresun,...
Four detained over solidarity with Turkish hunger strikers protesting purge
At least 4 people detained after police intervened into a group, gathered in solidarity with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators who have...
Int’l press bodies urge Turkish gov’t to implement Constitutional Court decision to free journalists
International press bodies including PEN International, ARTICLE 19, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, European Federation of Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Index on Censorship,...
Latest Reports
New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement
STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2025 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey in 2025, a year marked by continued democratic...
Weaponized Diplomacy: How Erdoğan Uses Turkish Missions for Transnational Repression
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This report reveals how the Turkish government has transformed its embassies and consulates into instruments of repression over the past decade. Once seen...
The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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This report examines how children from families targeted in Turkey’s unprecedented post-coup purge have endured the devastating consequences of persecution, social exclusion and...
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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This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...
Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023.
The May 2023 re-election of...