Human Rights

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...

Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A decades-long denial of democratic elections at Istanbul’s wealthiest minority foundation has attracted renewed international scrutiny...

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Following the pattern of past authoritarian rulers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made mass incarceration a central...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A newly released report by CrossBorder Jurists (CBJ), an association founded in Germany by Turkish lawyers living in...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A recent report released by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests that human rights violations in Turkey...

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a shocking and politically motivated posthumous legal action, Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for a deceased...