46 women sought protection from platform against violence in January
The We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız) has revealed that 46 women asked for their help in January, claiming they were victims...
Turkish court hands down suspended sentence to sexual harassment perpetrator
A Turkish man who was convicted of sexually harassing a young woman on a public bus in central Turkey’s Kayseri province received a reduced...
Celebrity gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting’ former soldier convicted of rape
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to popular actress Farah Zeynep Abdullah on insult charges due to her criticism of a...
31 women killed by men, 21 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Thirty-one women were murdered by men in Turkey in January and 21 more died under suspicious circumstances, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on...
Turkey records 3 femicides within a day
Three women across Turkey were killed within a 24-hour period by men from whom they were divorcing or separating, the Evrensel newspaper reported on...
Political scientist says gender inequality visible in all walks of life in Turkey
Political scientist Birgül Demirtaş has said women face many inequalities in professional life and that government policies had deepened gender inequality in all walks...
Academic in western Turkey shoots family members in murder-suicide
Yusuf Yılmaz, an academic working at a university in the western Turkish province of İzmir, shot his mother-in-law, his 4-year-old daughter and his wife,...
Uzbek woman falls victim to femicide in Turkey
Shaknoza Kurbonova, an Uzbek woman living in İstanbul, was stabbed to death by a man during an argument, the Artı Gerçek news website reported...
New mother falls victim to femicide in Turkey’s Mardin province
A 25-year-old woman in Turkey’s Mardin province was killed by her husband two days after giving birth, the Gazete Duvar news website reported.
Vatfa Ecevit gave...
Women’s Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The increase in rights violations against women in Turkey continued in 2023, with a rising number of femicide cases, bans on events organized by...
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...