Turkish gov’t to take a child back from foster family for 10 years over...
Turkish government has added a new cruelty to its numerous persecutions targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement on Monday. According to an...
Turkish gov’t keeps pregnant teacher, husband under police custody for 7 days
The Turkish government has kept a Sinop teacher who is reportedly pregnant with her second child, as well as her husband, in police custody...
Detention warrants issued for 70 Turkish military personnel over alleged Gülen links
The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 70 former and active duty military members of varying ranks as part...
Turkish police disturb mourning family and friends of deceased academic Özcerit
Turkish police have reportedly continued to disturb the mourning family members, relatives and friends of the deceased academic Ahmet Turan Özcerit on Tuesday following the...
Rights group: Turkish prison guards threatened with jail when they refuse to torture inmates
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV), said on Sunday that some Turkish prison guards who refused to...
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik released from Diyarbakır Prison
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...
Reliable sources: 6 abducted Turkish educators still kept in Kosovo
The reliable local sources in Kosovo informed Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday that the detained 5 Turkish educators and an academician have...
IHD: Systematic abuses surge in Turkey with 50.000 rights violations
Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır provincial branch head Raci Bilici said that 2016 was a disastrous year for human rights abuses in Turkey since...
Turkish family faced abuse, violence and lies during forcible removal from Pakistan
A Turkish family of four that were unlawfully abducted in Pakistan and later turned over to Turkish security services in defiance of the UN...
Woman, child, accountant, groom are new victims of witch hunt under Turkey’s state of...
Turkey has become a stage of enormous human rights violations under a state of emergency declared by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
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...