The Justice for Victims Platform has published “The Social Costs of the State of Emergency in Its Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Year”. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a DEM Party MP for Kocaeli and the platform’s spokesperson, announced it on 12 September 2026. (https://x.com/gergerliogluof/status/2098654725071671680?s=20)

The study is the sixth wave of a series running since 2017. It was conducted between 11 and 25 December 2025 with 4,339 participants across all 81 provinces. The series reports 33,858 respondents in total. Participants are surveyed in three groups: people dismissed, prosecuted or detained; their relatives; and people with no direct experience.

Its central contribution is an inventory of 214 distinct practices applied to those targeted, each set against the domestic and international norms it engages. The authors argue that these practices, taken together, meet the definition of persecution as a crime against humanity under Article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute. They expressly decline to advance a genocide claim.

The authors state the limits of their method openly. The sample is self-selected, the waves do not follow the same individuals, and responses have not been checked against official records. On that basis they present their figures as a lower bound.

The full report is substantially longer than the summary and is available only in Turkish. An executive summary is available in English.

Nine years after the decrees, this is one of the few sustained attempts to measure their continuing effects, and it comes from those affected rather than from any official body.