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Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2023. The May 2023 re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and th..
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Crackdown on the Kurdish Political Movement and Opposition Groups: 2023 in Review - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The Turkish government’s persecution of the Kurdish political movement and pressures on other opposition groups persisted throughout 2023, a year in which Turkey held presidential and legislative elections. The May 2023 re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the victory of the ruling Just..
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Labor Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey is one of the 10 worst countries in the world for working people, according to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) recorded nearly 2,000 fatal work-related accidents in 2023 and 31,131 fatal accidents since the Justice an..
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Women's Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The increase in rights violations against women in Turkey continued in 2023, with a rising number of femicide cases, bans on events organized by rights groups and detentions of women protesting gender-based violence. Before the May 2023 general election, the ruling Justice and Development Part..
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Veteran journalist faces investigation for ‘targeting’ father of slain soldier - Stockholm Center for Freedom
An investigation has been launched into veteran journalist Can Ataklı due to his statements targeting the father of a Turkish soldier who was recently killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Turkish Minute reported. Turkey has operated several dozen milit..
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School named after officer accused of torturing Kurds during 1980s military rule draws ire - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The revelation that a primary school in the western province of İzmir was named after Esat Oktay Yıldıran, a military officer who was accused of torturing Kurdish political prisoners following a 1980 military coup in Turkey, has sparked a strong backlash across the country, Turkish Minute reported. ..
ECtHR faults Turkey again for pretrial detention of 366 people over Gülen links - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has once again faulted Turkey over the arrest and pretrial detention of 366 people following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, finding an absence of sufficient grounds for their detention, Turkish ..
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Journalist assaulted in eastern Turkey faces trial for insulting attacker - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sinan Aygül, a local journalist based in the eastern province of Bitlis who in June was physically attacked after covering municipal corruption allegations, is now facing trial on charges of insulting one of the assailants, Voice of America (VOA) Turkish edition reported on Tuesday. If convicted, Ay..
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Turkey’s culture of impunity blamed for attack on referee on football pitch - Stockholm Center for Freedom
An incident involving Ankaragücü President Faruk Koca delivering a punch to referee Halil Umut Meler following a Turkish Super Lig game on Monday serves as a stark illustration of Turkey’s culture of impunity, shedding light on broader issues within the sporting realm and beyond, Turkish Minute repo..
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Ailing man sent to prison to serve sentence on conviction of Gülen links - Stockholm Center for Freedom
An ailing elderly man was arrested and sent to prison on Monday to serve a six-year, three-month sentence on conviction of links to the Gülen movement, the Kronos news website reported. Retired banker Ahmet Öztürk, 76, was sent to Aydın E-Type prison. He was accused of associating with people with l..
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RSF says Turkey repeatedly jails journalists to intimidate them - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a nongovernmental organization focusing on safeguarding the right to freedom of information, has said Turkey uses repeated imprisonment of journalists as a technique to intimidate them, putting the number of journalists jailed in the country during the course of 2023..
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Turkey blocks access to alternative website of popular online forum - Stockholm Center for Freedom
An Ankara court has blocked access to an alternative website for Ekşi Sözlük, one of the country’s most popular social media websites, which had been launched to circumvent an access ban on the platform’s main website, Turkish Minute reported, citing the Free Web Turkey platform. Free Web Turkey, wh..
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538 purge victims in Turkey died due to persecution: NGO - Stockholm Center for Freedom
A nongovernmental organization founded by victims of Turkey’s post-coup purge has announced that 538 people have died due to a number of factors related to their collective persecution, including sorrow, stress or illness, the Evrensel newspaper reported. “One hundred thirty-eight people died in pri..
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Turkey accounts for one-third of complaints pending before European human rights court - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The latest statistics released by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) show that pending cases filed against Turkey represent 33.2 percent of the court’s entire caseload. According to the Strasbourg court’s data, of the 71,450 pending applications, Turkey accounts for 23,750, significantly sur..
Turkey’s planned remote-work options for women spark blowback from activists - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The Turkish minister of family and social affairs in a social media post said her ministry was working on new regulations that would allow more remote-work and hybrid-work options for women, causing raised eyebrows among women’s rights activists. Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş said ..
Man faces prison for social media posts ridiculing Turkish president Erdoğan - Stockholm Center for Freedom
A man in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli province will stand trial on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on two occasions, the Diken news website reported. Aydın Aydoğan faces eight years, two months in prison for social media posts ridiculing Erdogan and government offi..
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Opposition mayor under investigation for insulting memory of Ottoman sultan - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into the opposition mayor of the western city of İzmir on accusations that he insulted the Ottoman Empire and the memory of its last sultan, Vahdettin, also known as Mehmet VI, Turkish media outlets reported. İzmir Mayor Tunç Soyer, from the m..
72-year-old Gezi Park trial defendant recounts harsh conditions in İstanbul prison - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Mücella Yapıcı, a prominent architect and a defendant in the Gezi Park trial who was released from an İstanbul prison in September, has recounted the poor prison conditions she faced as an elderly woman in an interview published by the T24 news website on Wednesday. On Sept. 28 the Supreme Court of ..
Former Zaman daily executive detained in western Turkey on coup charges - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The deputy editor-in-chief of a now-closed newspaper in Turkey has been detained in the western province of İzmir on charges of attempting to destroy the constitutional order due to his alleged role in a failed coup in 2016, Turkish Minute reported. Mehmet Kamış, who also used to write columns for t..
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Gaza vigil near Jewish hospital in İstanbul draws accusations of antisemitism - Stockholm Center for Freedom
A vigil held by a group of doctors near the Balat Jewish Hospital in İstanbul for the victims of war in Gaza has drawn accusations of antisemitism, Turkish Minute reported. A group of doctors protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza caused controversy by staging a demonstration near the Balat Jewish Hosp..
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Pro-gov’t media targets main opposition leader for attending Kurdish opera singer’s performance - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Pro-government media has targeted main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel for attending the recent performance of a Kurdish opera singer along with Pervin Buldan, an MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) and other politicians from both partie..
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Hundreds of families in Şırnak waiting for new homes 8 years after devastating clashes - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Many families in Şırnak whose houses were destroyed during a 2015 episode of violence between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the security forces, still have not been provided with new residences, the Yeni Yaşam newspaper reported on Thursday. The families were promised new apartments to be c..
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Turkey-backed rebel groups seize thousands of olive trees in northwest Syria: SOHR - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey-backed rebel factions in northwest Syria have seized nearly 4,000 olive trees in the Afrin and the Aleppo countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday. The trees belonged to civilians displaced to other areas. The armed groups also imposed taxes on olive cr..
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Release on parole of Turkish-Armenian journalist’s convicted killer sparks outrage - Stockholm Center for Freedom
The release on parole on Wednesday of Ogün Samast, the convicted murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Turkish-Armenian bilingual Agos weekly, has led to outrage among opposition politicians, journalists and social media users, Turkish Minute reported. The 52-yea..
