Reports
Academic Voices Silenced in Turkey
6,081 academics dismissed in Turkiye—freedom is the first casualty when universities become battlegrounds for power....
The Teenage Girls Case: A Call for Justice
In May 2024, a large-scale anti-terrorism operation took place in Istanbul, where 48 individuals, including high school ...
The Death of Fethullah Gülen: A Discourse Analysis in Turkish and International Media
On October 20, 2024, Fethullah Gülen, the founder of the Hizmet Movement/Fethullah Gülen Community, passed away in the U...
The Crackdown on Humanitarian Aid in Turkey
This report, issued by the Advocates of Silence Turkey (AST), details an alarming misuse of counterterrorism laws in Tur...
Special Report: “Authoritarianism Unveiled: Turkey’s Human Rights Catastrophe”
This special report highlights the concerns raised by Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Dunja Mija...
Beyond Turkey’s Borders: Unveiling Global Purge, Transnational Repression, Abductions
Turkey’s pursuit of alignment with the principles of the European Union has been marred by the government’s increasingly...
Torturers Report 2 – Torture and Human Rights Violations in Turkey
Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) prepares reports to record and document crimes against human dignity, such as torture...
Turkey’s Human Rights Record In Numbers
Turkey, which was once touted as a model country, has now become a case study of what can happen to a country that moves...
“Global Purge” : 144 Abductions Conducted by the Turkish Goverment in Turkey and Abroad
Since July 2016, the Turkish government went on to imprison hundreds of thousands of homemakers, mothers, children, babi...
Erdogan’s Torture Squads and Torture in Turkey as a Grave Human Rights Violation
THE CRIME OF TORTURE
As a member of the Council of Europe, Turkey has ratified the European Convention on H...
Women’s Rights Violations by the Turkish Legal System
This report is based on a combination of desk research and interviews held by Advocates of Silenced Turkey. For the inte...
European Court of Human Rights Should Reconsider Judicial Independence in Turkey Before Referring Cases to Domestic Authorities
This position paper critically examines the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) approach to cases originating from T...
Refugees and Latest Pushbacks in Greece
Thousands of refugees fleeing their homeland due to violence, terror, or political prosecution use Greece as an entry ga...
I Cannot Say We Are Absolutely Safe Even Abroad
This report examines the extraterritorial threats faced by supporters of the Gulen Movement, also known as the Hizmet Mo...
