Human Rights

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A Turkish teacher whose application for political asylum in Norway was rejected and who was reportedly under investigation...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm During a November 20 session of the Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Investigation Committee, the  lawmaker presiding over the...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey gives one of the toughest reviews of the country’s democracy in...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A new report compiled by the Netherlands-based human rights group Stichting Justice Square has detailed a pattern of...

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm When Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF) Justice Flávio Dino revoked the detention of Turkish-Brazilian national Mustafa...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long refused to permit large-scale demonstrations, treating marches and...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s prison population has reached an unprecedented level, hitting the highest figure in the country’s modern history, according...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey carried out a global campaign in 2024 to locate, detain and repatriate from other countries individuals it...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish judge Saadet Yüksel cast the sole dissenting vote as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm In a ruling dated March 25, 2025, the Turkish Constitutional Court found that authorities had violated the procedural...