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Sex crime convictions increased 10-fold in Turkey in 10 years: TurkStat

February 12, 2021

The number of people convicted of sex crimes in Turkey saw a sharp increase from 562 in 2009 to 5,800 in 2019, a 10-fold...

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Child abuse cases hit record levels in Turkey last year: report

May 30, 2019

Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has released statistics for 2018 that show an unprecedented number of criminal cases launched over the sexual abuse of children as well...

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RSF calls Turkish journalists’ convictions ‘an act of political despotism’

March 9, 2018

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday condemned the sentences ranging from two to seven years in prison that 25 Turkish journalists received on March...