Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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This report focuses on how the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used extrajudicial and illegal methods for the forcible transfer...
El Paso entryway of choice for Turkish migrants: report
US border patrol agents have encountered 8,735 Turkish nationals coming into the country illegally through the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, for fiscal...
Turkey seeks extradition of 1,269 from 112 countries over alleged Gülen links
Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç on Wednesday said the Turkish government has sought the extradition of 1,269 people living in exile in 112 countries over alleged links...
UN-protected refugee shares harrowing tale of abduction, urges authorities to locate missing husband
Saadet Taşçı, who was kidnapped on Friday in Nairobi by individuals allegedly connected to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has recounted her harrowing experience...
[INTERVIEW] Governments’ use of digital technologies to threaten dissidents abroad creates climate of fear, oppression...
Dr. Marcus Michaelsen, senior researcher at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab, said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) that understanding...
Turkey presses Netherlands on 217 extradition requests tied to Gülen movement
Turkey’s justice minister said Ankara has asked the Netherlands to extradite 217 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, renewing a long-running...
Turkish gov’t hosts group of Pakistani journalists amid Kaçmaz scandal
As questions persist about the abduction of former Pak-Turk school director in Pakistan Mesut Kaçmaz and his family in Lahore last month, Turkey is...
Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara
Alaettin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia's capital...
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
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Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi spied on asylum seekers, secret documents reveal
The Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi spied on 52 Turkish citizens who had sought political asylum in Georgia, official correspondence of the Turkish National Police,...
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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...