Human Rights

Nordic Monitor   In making reference to the National Tax Orders (Tekalif-i Milliye Emirleri) of the 1920s, President Recep Tayyip...

Nordic Monitor   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Basri Bağcı, who was deemed "unqualified" to be a judge...

Nordic Monitor The European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Turkey, Nacho Sánchez Amor, and the chair of the EP Delegation to...

Nordic Monitor   While the Turkish government has excluded political prisoners from a recently proposed amnesty bill, UN High Commissioner...

Abdullah Bozkurt   The coronavirus pandemic has fueled hate and xenophobic speech in the predominantly pro-government Turkish media, which accuses...

Nordic Monitor   President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from...

Abdullah Bozkurt   A chief aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the owner of a media group to...

Nordic Monitor   In what can be seen as a scandalous move by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...

 Nordic Monitor   A Turkish lieutenant colonel who had been assigned to NATO headquarters and who was abducted and tortured...

Abdullah Bozkurt   The gruesome details of torture and abuse perpetrated by Turkish police at a black site in 2016...