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 […]
When Rule of Law Erodes: The Inevitable Breach of Article 6 ECHR
Download PDF This report analyzes how systemic deficiencies in Turkey’s judiciary have led to persistent violations of the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Drawing on landmark ECtHR judgments—including Yüksel Yalçınkaya, Demirhan, Yıldırım, Şimşek, and Akarsu—the report documents how courts rely on flawed or undisclosed evidence, […]
Illegalities in the Prevention of Terrorism Financing Investigations in Turkey
Download PDF Also available in: TR This report examines how Turkey’s counter-terrorism financing legislation has been systematically misused as a political tool to suppress dissent rather than to combat terrorism. Drawing on international legal standards, ECtHR judgments, and UN findings, it documents how vague definitions of terrorism have enabled arbitrary prosecutions and economic confiscations, targeting journalists, […]
Discriminatory Implementation of Probation and Parole for Political Prisoners
Download PDF This report examines the discriminatory implementation of probation and parole for political prisoners in Türkiye, exposing how individuals accused on political grounds—particularly members of the Kurdish political movement and the Gülen movement—are systematically denied equal access to early release mechanisms. Through analysis of domestic laws, international standards, case studies, and interviews, it documents […]
Criminalization of Family Ties: A Systematic Human Rights Violation in Türkiye
Download PDF This report documents a systematic human rights violation in Türkiye, where children and young women have been criminalized solely based on their family ties to individuals accused of links to the Gülen movement. Drawing on detailed case studies, including a 12-year-old girl subjected to surveillance and a 16-year-old charged with terrorism, the report […]
The Latest Example of Seizing Opponents’ Assets in Turkey: EKREM İMAMOĞLU’s Case and the Trusteeship of İMAMOĞLU CONSTRUCTION INC.
Download PDF This report examines the politically motivated seizure of assets in Turkey through the case of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. Following his 2025 arrest on controversial charges including bribery and terrorism, Turkey’s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) was appointed trustee to 24 companies, including İmamoğlu Construction Inc. The report contextualizes this within a broader […]
How Press Freedom Disappeared in Turkey? Legal Repression and Digital Censorship
Download PDF This report documents the systematic erosion of media freedom under the AKP Government, particularly since the 2016 coup attempt. It details how legal harassment, arbitrary prosecutions, and sweeping censorship laws have criminalized journalism and silenced dissent, with 515 journalists prosecuted in just the first half of 2024 and over 219,000 URLs—including 14,000 news […]