Rights groups call on Turkish gov’t to ensure protection of rights of Turkmen nationals...
Thirty-three nongovernmental organizations in a joint statement on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to uphold its international legal obligations and ensure the protection...
Turkey’s top court rejects application from abducted teacher’s wife
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found inadmissible an individual application filed by the wife of a teacher who was the alleged victim of an enforced...
Turkish intelligence allegedly abducted Turkish businessman from Tajikistan
A Turkish businessman living in Tajikistan was allegedly abducted on Saturday morning by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the Kronos news website reported.
Koray Vural, a...
Kenyan government confirms deportation of 4 Gülen-linked Turks
The Kenyan Foreign Ministry has confirmed the deportation of four Turks whose whereabouts had been unknown since their kidnapping by unidentified individuals in Nairobi...
Pakistan government violates UNHCR status by deporting Kaçmaz Family to Turkey
The repercussions of the deportation of Turkish teacher Mesut Kaçmaz (43) and his family by Pakistan government to Turkey on early Saturday, despite of...
Erdoğan says Fethullah Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as...
Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan media: MİT has located 4,600 alleged members of Gülen movement in 110...
The agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) have reportedly located 4,600 alleged members of the Gülen movement in 110 countries around the world,...
Turkish Embassy in Sweden spied on exiled journalist and critics, documents reveal
In a blatant violation of international conventions, Turkish diplomats and consular officers in Sweden have gathered intelligence about exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt and...
Kyrgyz school alumni offer $1 million reward for location of missing educator
The alumni of a prestigious network of schools in Kyrgyzstan whose president went missing on the evening of May 31 and is feared to...
Educator abducted from Kyrgyzstan by Turkish spies arrested on terrorism charges
A Turkish court on Monday ruled to arrest Orhan İnandı, an educator who was abducted from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) due...
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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...