Documentary details torture of Turkish diplomats in police custody
A documentary that premiered on the Bold Medya news website’s YouTube channel on Sunday revealed the plight of former diplomats summarily dismissed from the...
Prosecutor finds no grounds for legal action against policemen who mistreated Kurdish family
The Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor's Office said there were no grounds for legal action against policemen who beat and injured a Kurdish family during a...
Photos show signs of torture on Turkish-Kyrgyz educator abducted by MİT, wife says
Reyhan İnandı, the wife of a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator whose rendition from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) was acknowledged by Turkish President Recep...
Turkish interior minister visited mass torture site, personally witnessed abuse that continued after he...
Lt. Col. Tuncay Koçak, head of the organized crime unit at the Gendarmerie General Command, testified in court that he witnessed the visit of...
Prosecutor finds no grounds for legal action against policemen who allegedly mistreated Kurdish minors
The Van Public Prosecutor's Office said there were no grounds for legal action against policemen who allegedly mistreated three Kurdish minors in detention in...
404 people tortured, 10 people abducted in Turkey in 2020: TİHV
Four hundred four people were tortured and 10 were abducted in Turkey last year, according to an annual report released by the Human Rights...
CCTV recordings at police station reveal brutal treatment of detainee
Newly emerged CCTV recordings of a man who died in police custody on June 5 in İstanbul show several policemen detaining him and one...
Top court rules no rights violation in case of police chief found dead in...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled there was no rights violation concerning the imprisonment of a former police intelligence chief who was found dead in...
255 people killed, 306 maltreated, tortured in Turkey in May: report
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in May included 255 deaths and 306 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 87 of them taking...
Turkish intelligence agents tortured a helicopter pilot to build a fake legal case for...
Agents of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT), were involved in select torture sessions at an unofficial site run by the police in order to...
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...