The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), an advocacy group founded by exiled Turkish journalists, published “Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown, 10 Years On: A Decade’s Legacy” in July 2026. The report argues that measures introduced after the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, which killed 251 people, became embedded in Türkiye’s institutions. The Turkish government holds the Gülen movement responsible for the coup attempt; the movement denies this.

Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said on 12 July 2026 that 720,338 people had been subject to proceedings over alleged Gülen links since 2016. Of these, 127,102 had been convicted and 124,743 acquitted, and proceedings against 83,404 were pending. He said 10,485 people were in prison.

According to the State of Emergency Procedures Review Commission, 125,678 people were dismissed from public service by emergency decree. SCF puts the total at some 150,000. Its estimate includes dismissals by administrative decision after the emergency ended, for which the government has published no consolidated figure.

The Commission received 127,292 applications against emergency measures. It accepted 17,960 (14.1 percent) and rejected 109,332 before its mandate ended on 22 January 2023. SCF says many rejected applicants had never been prosecuted, had received non-prosecution decisions or had been acquitted. SCF also reports that in June 2026 the European Court of Human Rights communicated Mehmet Candar and Others v. Türkiye, asking the government about the legality, foreseeability and proportionality of the dismissals.

On property, the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) said in July 2026 that trusteeship of 1,497 companies and asset holdings had been transferred to it in Gülen-related investigations.

On detention, SCF cites the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, who visited in late 2016 and found torture and ill-treatment “widespread” at the time of arrest and in police and gendarmerie custody. SCF also says Türkiye has withheld consent to publish the Council of Europe anti-torture committee’s report on its 2016 visit.

Abroad, SCF says Turkey’s intelligence agency had publicly acknowledged 128 operations to return people accused of Gülen links by 2025. SCF adds that Freedom House counted 132 incidents of direct physical transnational repression by Turkey since 2014.

The state of emergency ended on 19 July 2018. In July 2026, according to the Justice Ministry, proceedings against 83,404 people were still pending.