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2020
2020 ANNUAL REPORT
A year in Turkey’s prisons amid pandemic: Prisoners unable to access healthcare
The Civil Society in the Penal System Association has released its annual report on Turkey’s prisons: One of the major problems facing prisoners in 2020 was the violation of their right to access healthcare.
8 February 2022
REPORT
Perpetrators of violations of rights against LGBTI+s: Public authorities
Kaos GL Association’s 2020 Report of Human Rights of LGBTI+s has been published: “The perpetrators are often public authorities and legislators. Discrimination has become a systematic government policy.”
5 November 2021
TİHV-HRFT REPORT
‘People tortured in Turkey from age 5 to 70’
According to the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, the age of the ones who complained about being subjected to torture and ill treatment ranged from 5 to 70 in 2020.
12 July 2021
TİHV REPORT
‘At least 3 thousand 291 people’s right to life violated in Turkey in 2020’
According to the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV), at least 2 thousand 427 people, including 68 children and at least 101 refugees/ migrants, lost their lives in occupational homicides in Turkey in 2020.
24 June 2021
CULTURE AND ARTS AMID PANDEMIC
Did we see a play, movie, opera performance in Turkey in 2020?
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released the 2020 statistics on cinema, theatre, operas, ballets, choirs and groups in Turkey. Marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, last year saw a drop in the number of halls, audience and performances.
16 June 2021
TURKSTAT
Turkey’s most affluent 20 percent have 47.5 percent of total income
A recent survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute has shown that Turkey’s severe material deprivation rate was 27.4 percent in 2020, when the deterioration in the income distribution also continued.
16 June 2021
TİHV REPORT
Rights defenders sentenced to 24 years, 3 months in Turkey in a year
According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, 17 rights defenders stood trial in 7 separate cases in 2020; seven rights defenders were sentenced to a total of 24 years, 3 months in prison.
10 June 2021
TURKSTAT
4,866 people died in road traffic accidents in Turkey in 2020
According to the Road Traffic Accidents Statistics shared by the TurkStat for 2020, 150,275 traffic accidents involving death or injury occurred in Turkey last year, claiming the lives of 4,866 people and injuring over 226 thousand others.
2 June 2021
TURKSTAT - YOUTH IN STATISTICS
28.3 percent of young people in neither education nor employment
Youth population constituted 15.4 percent of Turkey’s population in 2020. Their rate of enrollment in higher education dropped. The rate of those in neither education nor employment increased from 26 percent in 2019 to 28.3 percent in 2020.
18 May 2021
USCIRF REPORT
'Religious freedom conditions in Turkey followed a troubling trajectory in 2020'
In its annual report on religious freedom, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has mentioned Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque, defining it as “a move that many denounced as divisive and hostile to Turkey’s religious minorities.”
22 April 2021
MINISTRY OF FAMILY REPORT
Number of households receiving aid tops 6.5 million in Turkey
According to the 2020 activity report of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, the number of households receiving aid was 3 million 282 thousand in 2019. This number doubled in a year.
2 April 2021
TURKSTAT
Turkey saw over 1.2 million decrease in employment in 2020
The Turkish Statistical Institute has shared the labor force statistics for 2020. The number of unemployed was 4 million 61 thousand 408 thousand in 2020, which marked a 0.5 point increase when compared to the previous year.
22 March 2021
REPORT ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS
41 women driven to suicide in Turkey in a year
At least 1,075 women were subjected to economic, physical, psychological and sexual violence, harassment or threat last year, shows a recent report released by the Women’s Commission of the Human Rights Association (İHD).
18 March 2021
Turkey is getting unhappier
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has shared the results of its “Life Satisfaction Survey” for 2020. While 52.4 percent said that they were happy in 2019, this rate dropped to 48.2 percent last year.
18 February 2021
REFUGEES LEFT ALONE WITH PROBLEMS
‘47.5 percent of Syrians in Turkey are children’
The İstanbul Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has released a report on violations of rights faced by refugees in Turkey in 2020. According to the report, 1 million 732 thousand 44 Syrian people in Turkey are children.
29 January 2021
Turkey’s foreign trade deficit increased by 69.1 percent in 2020
According to the Foreign Trade Statistics announced by the TurkStat for December 2020, Turkey’s exports decreased by 6.3 percent and imports increased by 4.3 percent in the period of January-December 2020.
29 January 2021
Turkey saw record-high extreme temperatures in 198 centers in 2020
According to the data shared by Directorate General of Meteorology, the highest number of extreme temperatures were recorded in September 2020, when extreme temperatures were reported in 93 centers across the country.
19 January 2021
HRW report on violations of rights in Turkey in 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released its World Report 2021. The Turkey chapter of the report has documented the violations of rights and the government’s pressure targeting the press and judiciary over the past year.
14 January 2021
CHP MP ERKEK
‘Turkey also hit by a pandemic of injustice in 2020’
Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Muharrem Erkek has prepared a report entitled “2020 Inventory of Injustice in Turkey.”
7 January 2021
2020: If there is life, there is hope
2020 is finally over and it was, without a doubt, not an easy year for us. But... Was 2020 really that bad? Can we really say that nothing good happened? Certainly not. Then, here is a brief look at the positive developments in 2020...
1 January 2021
Selay Dalaklı
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Turkey's top stories of 2020: A bleak list after a bleak year
The country's coronavirus outbreak turned out to be much worse than what the ministry reported, the government increased its grip on freedom of expression, rights violations and legal struggles continued.
31 December 2020
Volga Kuşçuoğlu
GREENPEACE
‘There is no vaccine for climate crisis, we must change’
Greenpeace has compiled the disasters faced by the world and Turkey due to the climate crisis in 2020. The organization has explained the reasons why the climate crisis must be the first item on the agenda next year.
31 December 2020
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