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Passport Bans in Turkey: How Political Dissidents Are Trapped Inside the Country
10 Feb 2026

Passport Bans in Turkey: How Political Dissidents Are Trapped Inside the Country

For many people in Turkey after 2016, repression did not begin with imprisonment. It began with; a quiet notification, a denied passp...

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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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