Reports
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In Custody
Police Torture and Abductions in TurkeyThis report details credible evidence of 11 cases of serious abuse in detention, involving scores of individuals, all but one within the past seven months.
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Following the Money
Lack of Transparency in Donor Funding for Syrian Refugee EducationThis report tracks pledges made at a conference in London in February 2016.
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Silencing Turkey’s Media
The Government’s Deepening Assault on Critical JournalismThis report documents five important components of the crackdown on independent domestic media in Turkey, including the use of the criminal justice system to prosecute and jail journalists on bogus charges of terrorism, insulting public officials, or crimes against the state.
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A Blank Check
Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against TortureThis report documents how the weakening of safeguards through decrees adopted under the state of emergency has negatively affected police detention conditions and the rights of detainees.
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“When I Picture My Future, I See Nothing”
Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in TurkeyThis 62-page report documents the major obstacles that prevent Syrian refugee children from getting formal education in Turkey, which is hosting more than 2 million refugees from the Syrian conflict that began in 2011.
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The Mediterranean Migration Crisis
Why People Flee, What the EU Should DoThe 33-page report documents the human rights abuses driving people to make the dangerous sea crossing and the shortcomings of EU migration and asylum policies.
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Turkey’s Human Rights Rollback
Recommendations for ReformThis 38-page report outlines the rollback of human rights and rule of law in Turkey, linked to mass anti-government protests in 2013 and corruption allegations that go to the very heart of the government of the ruling AKP.
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Why They Left
Stories of Iranian Activists in ExileThe 60-page report documents the experiences of dozens of rights defenders, journalists and bloggers, and lawyers whom security and intelligence forces targeted because they spoke out against the government.
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Time for Justice
Ending Impunity for Killings and Disappearances in 1990s TurkeyThis 67-page report looks at the lessons on obstacles to accountability from the ongoing trial of retired Colonel Cemal Temizöz and six others for the murder and disappearance of 20 men and boys between 1993 and 1995.
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The EU’s Dirty Hands
Frontex Involvement in Ill-Treatment of Migrant Detainees in GreeceThis report assesses Frontex’s role in and responsibility for exposing migrants to inhuman and degrading detention conditions during four months beginning late in 2010 when its first rapid border intervention team (RABIT) was apprehending migrants and taking them to police stations and migrant detention centers in Greece’s
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"He Loves You, He Beats You"
Family Violence in Turkey and Access to ProtectionThis report documents brutal and long-lasting violence against women and girls by husbands, partners, and family members and the survivors’ struggle to seek protection. Turkey has strong protection laws, setting out requirements for shelters for abused women and protection orders.
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Protesting as a Terrorist Offense
The Arbitrary Use of Terrorism Laws to Prosecute and Incarcerate Demonstrators in TurkeyThis report is based on a review of 50 cases. It describes 26 cases of individuals prosecuted for terrorism simply for taking part in protests deemed by the government to be sympathetic to the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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Closing Ranks against Accountability
Barriers to Tackling Police Violence in TurkeyThis 80-page report documents 28 cases of police abuse against members of the public since the start of 2007, and examines official investigations of police conduct in those instances.
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Stuck in a Revolving Door
Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union
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“We Need a Law for Liberation”
Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing TurkeyThis 123-page report documents a long and continuing history of violence and abuse based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
