Turkey’s Constitutional Court rules in favor of lawyer prosecuted for defending tortured client
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of Barzan Demirhan, a lawyer prosecuted for allegedly threatening a police officer while defending a client subjected...
NGO report on Turkey’s prisons highlights widespread mistreatment, rights violations
Turkish prisons are beset by persistent issues of torture, overcrowding and discriminatory practices, according to the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation of...
Lawyer alleges brutal assault by Istanbul police
A Turkish lawyer in a statement on X has alleged severe police brutality at the Istanbul Police Department’s organized crime unit after attempting to...
781 people reported torture in Turkey in 2023: rights foundation
A total of 781 people sought assistance in 2023 from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) for themselves or a relative due to...
Opposition MP raises alarm over alleged mistreatment of women detainees
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a parliamentary member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and a human rights advocate, has raised concerns...
Family of 14-year-old Kurd pressured by district governor to withdraw mistreatment complaint
The family of a 14-year-old Kurdish teenager who has accused police officers of physical assault has been urged by the local district governor to...
Kurdish journalist claims she was subjected to strip-searches in prison
Esra Solin Dal, a Kurdish journalist who was previously arrested and released pending trial, was allegedly subjected to a number of rights violations including...
Erdoğan’s crackdown does not spare minors: Teenagers recount trauma of police custody
Two teenage girls detained last week in a police operation focused on alleged members of Gülen movement, a faith-based group targeted by Turkish President...
Turkish prosecutors dismiss torture complaint by former dormitory director linked to Gülen movement
Turkish prosecutors have dismissed a complaint of torture filed by Aysun Işınkaralar, the former director of a dormitory affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Police interrogated minors in custody without lawyer present, falsified statements: MP
Opposition deputy and leading human rights advocate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has claimed that the police questioned minors who were detained on Tuesday in the...
Latest Reports
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's 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
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has released its latest report, “Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey,” a study that...
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.
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of...
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government’s decisions to freeze assets based on the pretext of preventing the financing of terrorism have...
Rule of Law(lessness) in Erdoğan’s Turkey: Violation of the principle of legality and no...
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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...