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ALONG WITH GLOBAL FORECAST

IMF lowers Turkey’s growth forecast to 2.7 percent in 2022

The International Monetary Fund has also lowered its 2022 global economic growth forecast, considering that the war between Russia and Ukraine continues.

21 April 2022

Turkey ‘totally rejects’ US human rights report, says, US ‘should focus on its own record’

The Foreign Ministry of Turkey has released a statement about the US 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey, saying that Turkey “will continue with its work on protecting and promoting the rights of its citizens together.”

15 April 2022

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

'Deep flaws in the judicial system not addressed in Turkey in 2021'

Amnesty International has released its annual report on the state of human rights in the world. On Turkey, it has noted that "opposition politicians, journalists, rights defenders and others faced baseless investigations, prosecutions and convictions".

29 March 2022

2021 REPORT ON TURKEY

Journalism within four walls: State of Emergency continues

According to the report of the Dicle Fırat Journalist Association, there are 65 journalists behind bars in Turkey.

28 March 2022

REPORT ON JOB SATISFACTION

241 journalists put on trial, 115 physically attacked in Turkey in 2021

According to the report, in 2021, no steps were taken to remove the obstacles standing in the way of freedom of press and expression in Turkey. On the contrary, the deterioration of fundamental rights and freedoms continued.

28 March 2022

Council of Europe finds appointment of trustees in Turkey 'contrary to international law'

In a recent report, the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has found the trustees appointed by the AKP government to replace the elected HDP co-mayors to be “against the international law”.

25 March 2022

FEBRUARY 2022

Rights group monitored 49 trials: 2 journalists, 1 writer sentenced to 112 months in prison

The Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) has released its Trial Monitoring Report for February: "'Insulting the president' charge constituted 7 percent of the charges. 75 percent of the evidence cited for this charge was social media posts".

17 March 2022

CFWIJ FEBRUARY REPORT

Turkey: The top country violating women journalists’ rights, again

The Coalition for Women in Journalism has released its “Press Freedom Status For Women Journalists” report for February 2022. The Coalition detected 33 cases of violations against women journalists, 19 of which were in Turkey.

4 March 2022

DİYARBAKIR BAR CHAIR

‘Kurdish children in Turkey die in armored vehicle crashes or explosions of war remnants’

According to the report of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, 67 children lost their lives as a result of armored vehicle crashes and remnants of war in Turkey in the last 10 years. Bar Chair Eren says that the deaths occur in Kurdish-majority provinces.

3 March 2022 Ruken Tuncel

Workers' struggle for rights | Turkey saw 108 strikes in 2 months

“I haven’t gone to the cinema, seen a theater play or attended a concert for two years,” says a worker from the Yemeksepeti online food delivery company, speaking to the Labor Studies Community and daily Evrensel for their report.

2 March 2022

Report on HDP's Semra Güzel submitted to General Assembly of the Parliament

The Parliamentary Joint Commission on Constitution and Justice has submitted its report in favor of lifting the legislative immunity of HDP MP Güzel to the General Assembly of the Parliament. Güzel faces two separate summaries of proceedings.

25 February 2022

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Study finds ‘higher levels of anxiety, behavioral disorders’ in students during pandemic

According to a report prepared by the Education and Science Laborers’ Union, students suffered significant losses in their cognitive, emotional, social and psychomotor development during the distance education period in 2020-2021.

23 February 2022

NEWSLAB REPORT ON TURKEY

‘LGBTI+s severely underrepresented in sexual and reproductive health news'

790 news items on sexual and reproductive health published by the online news portals BirGün, Cumhuriyet, Diken, Evrensel, Gazete Duvar, Sabah, Sözcü, T24, Takvim and Posta have been analyzed for the NewsLabTurkey study.

23 February 2022

Romani people during the pandemic: Both discrimination and violence on the increase

Prepared as part of the Roma Dialogue Network’s Reinforcement Project, a recent report sheds light on the problems encountered by Romani people in Turkey during the pandemic: Aggravated discrimination, increasing poverty, more blatant violence.

21 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek

Report finds 317 environmental threats in Northern Forests in three months

The Northern Forests Research Association has released its last quarterly report identifying 317 factors of threat, destruction and defense in the region which also covers İstanbul in October - November - December 2021.

18 February 2022

HDP REPORT

‘Sinjar attacked by ISIS on the one side, by Turkey on the other’

Visiting the Sinjar (Shingal) region, HDP MP Murat Çepni has shared his impressions and observations, noting that ISIS has been gathering strength in the region again. He has defined Turkey’s fight against ISIS as a “big lie”.

17 February 2022

FORENSIC MEDICINE INSTITUTION

‘Criminal liability’ report on Kurdish politician, ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk

The Forensic Medicine Institution has presented its report regarding ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk. Finding “mild cognitive impairment”, the report does not have any details about whether Tuğluk is in a medical state to stay in prison.

16 February 2022

Youth in Turkey report: 73 percent want to live abroad

Germany-based Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Association has shared the findings of a recent survey: 48 percent of young people say that “they don’t trust the President at all”, nearly 73 percent would live abroad if they had the opportunity.

16 February 2022

PRISON CONDITIONS IN TURKEY

Prisoners complain about bills, too: Power cut, heaters off

According to the latest monthly report of the Civil Society in the Penal System Association, prisoners complain that electricity prices are increasing day by day and they cannot pay the fees as it puts their families into trouble economically.

9 February 2022

ANKARA BAR ASSOCIATION

With their report on torture censored, 6 members of ‘Human Rights Center’ resign

The administration of Ankara Bar has not shared its Human Rights Center’s report on torture allegations concerning Ankara Security Directorate. Six members of the center have resigned. Lawyers say similar incidents have been going on for some time.

9 February 2022

CHP’S TANRIKULU

‘2,964 people's right to life violated in Turkey in 2021’

According to the annual report on rights violations prepared by CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu, the right to life of 2,964 people was violated and 3,145 people were subjected to torture and ill treatment in Turkey in 2021.

28 January 2022

HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

Turkey’s Batman province faced 14 violations of rights per day in 2021, shows report

The Batman Branch of the İHD has released its 2021 annual report on violations of rights: 5,019 violations of rights were documented in the province in a year, which means, on average, 14 violations occurred in the city every day.

28 January 2022

MEDAR REPORT

Highest number of content removal orders in Turkey target news on corruption, irregularities

According to the report of the Media Research Association, at least 1,197 news articles faced orders of removal in a year. The websites of Cumhuriyet and BirGün newspapers and Oda TV news website faced the highest number of removal orders.

27 January 2022

2021 4TH QUARTERLY REPORT

The state of press freedom in Turkey: 18 journalists sentenced to prison in 3 months

According to a report published by Expression Interrupted, in the last quarter of 2021, 203 journalists appeared before the judge in 98 cases, which means on average, 70 journalists stood trial in more than 30 cases monthly during the reporting period.

27 January 2022

71 health workers subjected to violence per day during the pandemic

The Ankara Branch of the Health and Social Service Laborers Union has released its report on violence in healthcare: The number of incidents of violence in healthcare reported with code white increased by 56 percent in 2020 during the pandemic.

25 January 2022

CALL FOR RELEASE

Report by Aysel Tuğluk Solidarity Group: 'Let her live'

"Tuğluk's release in order to continue her treatment under conditions that safeguard her right to live and be medically cared for, is not only a necessary condition for the fulfilment of international agreements of which Turkey is party, but also a human necessity."

14 January 2022

ANNUAL REPORT

HRW: Turkey’s human rights record set back by decades

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released its annual report documenting the violations of rights committed around the world last year.

13 January 2022

REPORT

Climate crisis in Turkey's news media: Censorship, interest networks, budget…

Economic and political interest networks and ideological stances of newspapers determine the importance given to the climate crisis, according to a recent report prepared by Dr. Sarphan Uzunoğlu and Hazal Sena Karaca from NewsLabTurkey.

7 January 2022

VIOLATIONS OF RIGHT TO THE CITY

Antalya hit by pro-market policies, greed for profit in 2021

The Antalya City Monitoring Platform has documented violations of the right to the city in Antalya in 2021, finding that profit-based interventions in nature as well as racist and discriminatory policies were the leading factors behind the violations.

7 January 2022

Violations of rights peaked in 2021, shows CHP report on women

According to main opposition CHP Vice Chair Biçer-Karaca’s report, women constituted one of the groups most severely affected by the increasing violations of rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis in Turkey in 2021.

6 January 2022 Evrim Kepenek

DFG REPORT

47 journalists sentenced to 133 years in prison in Turkey in 2021

The Tigris-Euphrates Journalists Association has released its 2021 Report on Violations of Rights Against Journalists: “The government's attitude, pressure and what is happening in terms of press freedom show us that Turkey is a prison for journalists.”

5 January 2022

COVID-19

Pandemic in Turkey’s prisons | ‘36 people stay in a quarantine ward’

From the report of the Civil Society in the Penal System Association: “In some prisons, quarantine areas are arranged as wards and prisoners stay there in large groups of 26-36 people. There are blood and urine stains on some beds and bed sheets.”

5 January 2022