Solidarity with OTHERS

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Abdullah Tırpan’s, a 73-year-old political prisoner, left leg was amputated below the knee overnight. It will now be amputated again above it.

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NEW REPORT: the emergency powers Erdogan built for one group now reach the opposition, the press and other faiths and communities

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NEW REPORT: Freedom House scores Turkey 7 out of 40 on user rights, the lowest internet freedom score in Europe | Freedom on the Net 2026

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Nineteen more arrests in Turkey’s Süleymanlı community case, the latest of at least five waves against a religious community since August, and trustees now run 50 of its companies.

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Three Turkish ministers demanded action against the Gülen movement in Brussels. Not one Belgian minister named it.

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Turkey ranks highest in the OECD for violence against women, five years after leaving the convention named for its largest city: Istanbul Convention

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A Hacettepe University student says police abducted him off an Ankara street and held him three hours in the hills

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Both of Alparslan Kuytul’s lawyers were detained; sixty days on, one is still tagged and confined to his home

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Ten detained in Ankara on a single ground: ByLock. A teacher and a psychologist are among them

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Read issue 3⃣3⃣0⃣ of our weekly newsletter 🔽
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Last week's summary on #TurkeyRightsMonitor

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Abdullah Tırpan was found fit for prison four times; today his daughter says doctors are amputating his leg

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Fifteen detained on “FETÖ” charges in the sixth wave of an investigation built on one anonymous witness’s memory card

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A newspaper editor sought for ten years has been remanded on a ByLock allegation, the evidence Strasbourg condemned

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A journalist who called for protests over the Halk TV takeover was detained and banned from leaving Turkey

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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

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

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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👇

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Erdoğan'dan FETÖ okulları açıklaması

Erdoğan FETÖ okullarına dair "Dışişleri Bakanlığımızın, Maarif Vakfımızın ve kurumlarımızın yoğun çabaları sayesinde 50'yi aşkın ülkede FETÖ bağlantılı okulların tamamen veya kısmen kapatılmasını sağladık" dedi.

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At the Maarif Foundation’s tenth anniversary, Erdoğan said Turkey secured the closure of Gülen schools in over 50 countries

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A prosecutor has opened an investigation into what Ekrem ��mamoğlu said while defending himself in court

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