Human Rights

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A police chief who authorized horrific torture sessions against critics of the authoritarian regime of Turkish President Recep...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey remained the most complained-about country before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in 2025, despite a...

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An aircraft passenger from Africa who used Turkey as a transit point en route to his final destination...

Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A secret blacklist maintained by the Turkish Union of Notaries (Türkiye Noterler Birliği, TNB) has been...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A German administrative court has ruled that criminal proceedings in Turkey against people accused of links to the...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm A Turkish journalist first accused of defaming an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group remains in prison more than 10 years...

Levent Kenez/Stockholm  A coalition of United Nations special rapporteurs has publicly released a letter accusing the Turkish government of criminalizing...

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...