İHD: 1,413 detained, 128 tortured in Kurdish-populated region of Turkey in first half of...
At least 128 prisoners were subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and 1,413 people, including 44 children, were detained in mostly Kurdish populated provinces of...
Afghan security forces raid Afghan-Turk Boys High School in Shibirghan
The Afghan-Turk Boys High School in Shibirghan was raided by members of the Afghan security forces under the command of Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid...
53-year-old Turkish teacher affiliated with Gülen movement dies in Trabzon Prison
Recep Abdioğlu, a 53-year-old teacher, died in a Turkish prison in Trabzon province after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on Thursday night.
Abdioğlo was jailed in...
Body of Turkey’s purge victim family’s 2nd child found in Evros River
The body of five-year-old Mesut Akçabay, who went missing along with his mother and two other siblings on July 19 when the boat carrying...
Turkey’s MİT abducts Veysel Akçay, general director of schools affiliated with Gülen movement, in...
Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation...
Turkish Embassy personnel attack protestors in Pretoria
Security personnel from the Turkish Embassy in Pretoria pounced on members of the Turkey Solidarity Network (TSN) in South Africa, who were protesting the...
HDP deputy proposes bill to save children jailed with mothers from Turkish prisons
Meral Danış Bektaş, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has proposed a bill that seeks to delay the execution of sentences...
ECtHR questions Azerbaijani gov’t on illegal deportation of Turkish teacher over Gülen links
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has questioned the Azerbaijani government over the illegal deportation of Turkish national Taci Şentürk at the request of...
‘Saturday Mothers’ gather for 695th time in İstanbul to demand justice for disappeared children
The "Saturday Mothers" gathered in Galatasaray Square in İstanbul for the 695th time over the weekend, demanding to know the fate of people who...
Yet another mysterious abduction by a black van in Turkey’s capital
Hasan Kala, an academic who was fired from his job at Çankırı Karatekin University by a government decree under a state of emergency declared...
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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...
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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...