Human Rights
Turkey issued 9 arrest warrants for NBA player Kanter, a fierce critic of the Erdoğan regime
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm American professional basketball team Portland Trail Blazers player Enes Kanter faces nine outstanding arrest warrants issued by...
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Secure messaging app Signal has been effectively criminalized in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The use of Signal, a popular encrypted messaging app, appears to have been criminalized in Turkey based...
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Turkish interior minister visited mass torture site, personally witnessed abuse that continued after he left
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Lt. Col. Tuncay Koçak, head of the organized crime unit at the Gendarmerie General Command, testified in...
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Turkey investigated graphic designers from New York Times, Washington Post in connection to jailed journalist
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkish authorities listed the visit to the US of a top art director who worked for a...
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Sergeant’s testimony revealed gendarmes were tortured to death by police in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Abdulhamit Özmen, a 31-year-old sergeant who had worked as a computer expert and systems information manager for...
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Senior intelligence chief who campaigned against Turkish gov’t for politicizing police force traumatized with torture
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A senior police intelligence chief who had campaigned on behalf of a police association against turning Turkey’s...
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Turkey listed membership in the International Police Association as a criminal act
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish prosecutor listed membership in and activity with the International Police Association (IPA), the largest police...
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Turkey admits to hosting Interpol assembly for propaganda against critics
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is preparing to convince top police chiefs from all over the world that Turkey's counterterrorism policies are...
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Dutch traffic authority RDW’s letter led to an arrest warrant for a critic from Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey managed to locate a dissident in the Netherlands and sought his extradition thanks to the Dutch...
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In a secret document, Turkey admitted jailing dozens of journalists while sticking to policy of denial in public
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A secret Turkish government document obtained by Nordic Monitor has revealed that Turkey privately acknowledged it had...
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