59 years-old author dies after allegedly falling from balcony as police raid home to...
Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı, 59-year-old theologian and author targeted by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government under the rule of Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
Report: Erdoğan constructing new regime in Turkey by gov’t decrees under rule of emergency
Brussels-based Platform for Peace and Justice (PPJ) has released a new report and underlined that a new regime is being built by the Justice and...
HDP deputies ask Turkish gov’t to explain torture claims of jailed Kurdish politician
Several deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have directed questions to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in Parliament about...
New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts
Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...
Abducted teacher in Turkey turns up in police detention after 42 days of torture...
A philosophy teacher who was abducted in Turkish capital on a broad daylight in April and reported missing by his wife turned up in...
Veteran destitutes of social security coverage after being dismissed in post-coup purge
Being a veteran is no relief from Turkish government's post coup witch hunt as M. Erhan Çelik , a former police officer who lost...
Kurdish political prisoners’ hunger strike ends on its 64th day
Hunger strike, which has been defined as "indefinite and irreversible," that pro-Kurdish political prisoners launched on February 15, 2017 for an end to the...
Turkish gov’t briefly detains İHD co-chairman Türkdoğan in Ankara
Turkish government has briefly detained Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of Human Rights Association (İHD) of Turkey and some other human rights defenders, including İHD General Accountant...
Former bureaucrat who turned up in Ankara prison after 9 months missing has lost...
Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former Turkish bureaucrat who had been missing since December 2020 and has been found in Ankara’s Sincan Prison, has lost...
A couple detained by Turkish police on their way to wedding ceremony over alleged...
Turkish government has increased the level of its persecution in the framework of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged followers of...
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...