Families: Women detained over alleged Gülen links subjected to maltreatment under Turkish police custody
The families of women detained in operations ordered by provincial Chief of Police Cengiz Zeybek and Governor Ersin Yazıcı between March 26-29 in a...
HRF calls on Kosovo PM to apply non-refoulment principle, obey int’l HR law on...
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) sent a letter to Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday and requested that he apply the...
Turkish prosecutors find doctor who took own life after firing not a ByLock user...
Turkish prosecutors have found that a doctor who was removed from his job at a public hospital in İzmir in 2017 due to alleged...
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...
Kosovo under Turkish gov’t pressure detains 5 Turkish educators over alleged links to Gülen...
Kosovo police detained five Turkish educators who are employees of the Mehmet Akif schools in Kosovo and an academic early Thursday morning over alleged...
Car used by abducted Turkish man found with a punctured tyre in Ankara
The car used by Ümit Horzum, who was kidnapped in Turkey's capital of Ankara on December 6, 2017, was found with a punctured tyre...
‘I’m not greater than the judiciary,’ Turkey’s Erdoğan tells Juncker over Greek soldiers
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he is no greater than the Turkish judiciary, in responding...
Turkish woman jailed over alleged Gülen links not released despite serious health risk
Birgül Bulut, one the more than 17,000 women who have been jailed in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...
PACE co-rapporteurs Mikko and Evans to make fact-finding visit to Turkey
Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...
Wife of Turkish judge removed from post over alleged links to Gülen movement jumps...
Adalet Betül Çağdır, the wife of a former judge who was removed from his post due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, on...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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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 focuses on how the Turkish government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has used family punishment against his opponents.
Sippenhaft, also known as...