Exiled Voices in an Age of Transnational Repression
Download Report PDF The report examines how exile reshapes journalism for reporters, editors, filmmakers, cartoonists, bloggers, and other media workers forced to leave their countries because of their work. Based on 25 interviews with exiled, displaced, and at-risk media workers from 15 countries across 9 displacement or host-country settings in the EU, the report shows that […]
Unequal Choice: Abortion Access and Women’s Autonomy Across Europe
Download Report PDF This report shows that, although abortion is legally recognised in many European countries, real access remains uneven due to legal restrictions, financial barriers, stigma, and gaps in healthcare systems. The report finds that limiting access does not reduce abortion rates but instead increases unsafe procedures and health risks, particularly for vulnerable groups such […]
Governing AI Counter-Speech: Effectiveness, Power, and Legitimacy in Digital Public Spheres
Download Report PDF This report examines the growing use of artificial intelligence in countering online hate speech, focusing not only on effectiveness but also on broader questions of power, governance, and legitimacy in digital public spaces. It finds that AI-driven counter-speech can be effective under specific conditions, especially when messages align with user values, target […]
Institutionalized Repression: Human Rights in Turkey 2025
Download Report PDF Human rights conditions in Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025, reflecting the deepening of structural and institutional patterns of repression. Authorities maintained the widespread use of broadly defined anti-terrorism legislation to target perceived opponents, including journalists, civil society actors, and individuals allegedly linked to the Gülen movement, despite binding rulings from the […]
Pregnancy Behind Bars: Pre-Trial Detentions of Pregnant Women in Turkey
Download Report PDF This report documents how the use of pre-trial detention against pregnant women in Turkey, particularly since 2016, has become a widespread and systematic practice that contradicts both domestic legal safeguards and international human rights standards, which require detention to be a measure of last resort; drawing on legal analysis and numerous documented […]
Arbitrary Prosecutions Based on a Manufactured Narrative: Exam Fraud Allegations and Turkey’s State Recruitment System
Download Report PDF This report argues that Turkey’s exam fraud allegations should be understood not as proof of a single coordinated “infiltration” plot, but as part of a much longer history of structural weaknesses, recurring leaks, weak oversight, and politicized recruitment in the country’s centralized examination system. It shows that exam scandals existed long before […]
From Crackdown to Calculated De-escalation: Human Rights Abuses Against Turkey’s Kurdish Population Between 2020-2025
Download Report PDF Download Annex PDF This report examines the evolution of human rights violations against Turkey’s Kurdish population between 2020 and 2025, documenting how systematic repression, mass arrests, trustee takeovers of elected municipalities, restrictions on freedom of expression, torture, and judicial abuse gradually gave way to a carefully managed rhetorical de-escalation framed by the […]
Between Availability and Accessibility: A Comparative Analysis of GBV Protection for Migrant Women in Belgium and Sweden
Download PDF This report offers a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Sweden protect migrant women from gender-based violence, revealing a significant gap between the availability of legal rights on paper and the real accessibility of those protections in practice. Drawing on legal frameworks, policy documents, and extensive grey literature, it shows how insecure migration […]
Legal Repressions and Digital Censorship [updated]
Download PDF This report documents the systematic erosion of press freedom in Turkey through legal, administrative, and digital means. Drawing on cases from 2023–2025, it details how broad laws on “personal rights,” “terrorism,” and “disinformation” have been used to prosecute journalists, block content, and suppress independent media. It highlights RTÜK’s sanctions against broadcasters, mass social […]
Government Crackdown on the main opposition party CHP
Download PDF This report documents the Turkish government’s systematic crackdown on the Republican People’s Party (CHP), detailing how elected mayors, party officials, journalists, protesters, and civil society actors have been targeted through politically motivated prosecutions, mass arrests, trustee appointments, censorship, and police violence following the opposition’s electoral victories, revealing a deliberate strategy to dismantle democratic […]