A journalist who called for protests over the Halk TV takeover was detained and banned from leaving Turkey solidaritywithothers.com/a-j…

A young neurosurgeon, allegedly Gülen movement member, asked to finish his operations before being taken away to detention; he was refused and remanded the same day solidaritywithothers.com/a-y…

Murat Arslan, awarded Europe’s human rights prize while in prison, has walked out after serving the full ten years solidaritywithothers.com/mur…

Cancer patient Mehmet Daylak was re-detained thirteen days after his release, before the scan that would show if his cancer had spread solidaritywithothers.com/can…

10 YEARS OF THE TURKISH MAARIF FOUNDATION: A DECADE OF EDUCATION OR TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION? Yesterday, the Turkish Maarif Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary at a ceremony attended by Türkiye’s President. The event highlighted the Foundation’s international expansion and presented its activities as a major achievement in education. Yet behind this celebratory narrative lies a deeply troubling record of political interference, institutional takeovers, and the systematic targeting of schools associated with the Gülen movement across the world. In our report, “Turkish Maarif Foundation and the Global Attack on Gülen Schools,” Solidarity with OTHERS documents the Foundation’s central role in Türkiye’s campaign of transnational repression against Gülen-affiliated educational institutions. Our findings reveal the scale of this campaign: 🔴 At least 162 schools were closed, confiscated, or transferred across 29 countries. 🔴 131 of these institutions were taken over by the Turkish Maarif Foundation. 🔴 Approximately 7,800 teachers and other personnel were affected. Our research documents how #diplomatic #pressure, bilateral negotiations, administrative decisions, and, in some cases, #coercive #security #interventions were used to secure school closures and transfers. In several countries, these processes proceeded without adequate judicial safeguards, transparent procedures, or effective legal remedies. The Foundation cannot be assessed merely as an independent educational charity. Its governance, substantial public funding, and close institutional integration with the Turkish state raise fundamental questions about its role in implementing political objectives abroad. Most seriously, our report concludes that there is a reasonable basis to consider whether the documented acts, viewed cumulatively, may constitute the crime against humanity of persecution under Article 7(1) of the Rome Statute. ❌The 10th anniversary should therefore be an occasion for scrutiny and accountability, not simply celebration. We invite journalists, policymakers, human rights organisations, and international institutions to examine the evidence presented in our report. 📖 Read the full report👇 solidaritywithothers.com/tur…

At the Maarif Foundation’s tenth anniversary, Erdoğan said Turkey secured the closure of Gülen schools in over 50 countries solidaritywithothers.com/at-…

A prosecutor has opened an investigation into what Ekrem İmamoğlu said while defending himself in court solidaritywithothers.com/a-p…

İstanbul prosecutors detained 24 alleged Gülen movement members; for 15 of them the statement describes a list, a grade and no act solidaritywithothers.com/ist…

Halk TV was taken off air, then its six social media accounts and 8.5 million followers were blocked solidaritywithothers.com/hal…

Turkey’s justice minister announced 33 detentions on ByLock, Bank Asya and call records, fifteen days after 947 more violations found by ECtHR solidaritywithothers.com/tur…

Strasbourg gave three judgments against Turkey in one day; in each, the Constitutional Court had dismissed the complaint summarily solidaritywithothers.com/str…

Turkey has blocked the X account of a parliamentary party, and no one knows which court ordered it solidaritywithothers.com/tur…

The court that convicted Osman Kavala has refused to release him, seven weeks after Strasbourg ordered it solidaritywithothers.com/the…

Halk TV raided at dawn and placed under the same trustee appointed to TELE1, Habertürk, Show TV and Flash TV solidaritywithothers.com/hal…

Read issue 3⃣2⃣9⃣ of our weekly newsletter 🔽 solidaritywithothers.com/iss…

Last week's summary on #TurkeyRightsMonitor

Turkey asks Greece to extradite 60 people; Athens says no formal request has been made on Gülen grounds solidaritywithothers.com/tur…

Ataşehir voted 56% for the CHP in 2024; it is now run by an AKP mayor elected with 18 votes solidaritywithothers.com/ata…

Forty CHP mayors arrested since the 2024 local elections, alongside trustee appointments, council re-runs and party defections solidaritywithothers.com/for…

Strasbourg finds Türkiye violated Article 10 by detaining journalist Müyesser Uğur five months over her Libya reporting solidaritywithothers.com/str…