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Turkey’s Post-2016 Purge by the Numbers: Arrests, Dismissals, Prisoners, and Exiles
08 Feb 2026

Turkey’s Post-2016 Purge by the Numbers: Arrests, Dismissals, Prisoners, and Exiles

After July 15, 2016, something unprecedented happened in Turkey. The government  did not simply investigate a coup attempt. It launched ...

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Women and Children in Turkish Prisons: What the World Is Ignoring
05 Feb 2026

Women and Children in Turkish Prisons: What the World Is Ignoring

In Turkey’s prisons today, there are children who have never seen the outside world. They were born behind bars. They learned to walk be...

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What Is KHK in Turkey? How Emergency Decrees Silenced Over 300,000 Lives
01 Feb 2026

What Is KHK in Turkey? How Emergency Decrees Silenced Over 300,000 Lives

In Turkey, the letters KHK have come to mean something far heavier than a legal term. For more than 129,000 public servants, KHK meant wa...

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