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Turkey intensifies restrictions on protests, opposition events and cultural gatherings

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Turkey’s prison population reaches historic high under Erdogan’s rule

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Police chief nicknamed ‘Angel of Death’ who ran torture sites in Turkey unmasked in court testimony

September 21, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt A Turkish police chief with the self-proclaimed nickname of Azrael, or the Angel of Death, oversaw two...

Head of operations at NATO-led KFOR tortured in Nazi-like camp in Turkey

September 9, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt Muhammet Tanju Poshor, a decorated colonel and the head of operations at the Kosovo Force (KFOR), a...

Erdoğan gov’t fixed legal problems for a crime boss who sold underage girls for sex in Turkey

Female officer in NATO’s second largest army raped in detention by Turkish police had to abort pregnancy

August 26, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt A female officer who had served in the Turkish army, NATO’s second largest, had to have an...

German national of Turkish origin sentenced to prison in Turkey for helping poor students, families in need

Police in Turkey adopt ISIS tactics in torture, see women and girls as sex slaves

August 5, 2020

Abdullah Bozkurt The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in...

Foreign Policy

Turkey’s Beijing embassy fails to mention Uyghurs in its annual report

August 4, 2020

Nordic Monitor The 2019 annual report of the Turkish Embassy in Beijing, released by Ambassador Abdulkadir Emin Önen on...

Human Rights

Turkish diplomats who spied on critics, coordinated kidnappings, responded to UN letter on state-sponsored abductions

January 9, 2021

Nordic Monitor The Turkish government’s response to a joint UN letter on systematic, state-sponsored abductions and the forcible return of...

Turkey sought to bar Egypt and Israel from NATO exercises, documents reveal

Turkey asked US to freeze assets belonging to President Erdoğan’s critics, opponents

July 14, 2020

Nordic Monitor A classified communiqué from Turkey’s justice ministry obtained by Nordic Monitor reveals how the Turkish government asked...

Turkey undermining NATO alliance, says Nordic Monitor director at Romania event

Turkey takes crackdown on press freedom beyond its borders, seeks extradition of journalist from Sweden

June 30, 2020

Nordic Monitor In a new effort to silence government critics abroad, a Turkish court has requested the extradition of...

UN secretary-general reveals serious violations against children in armed conflict in 2019

June 23, 2020

Nordic Monitor UN Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres’ Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict has revealed serious violations against...

Turkey launches criminal investigation into prominent critic for sharing CNN interview with NBA star Enes Kanter