Türkiye: Government Targets Main Opposition

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image People gather outside the Istanbul municipality building in Istanbul, Türkiye, to protest the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, March 22, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch (Istanbul, February 4, 2025) – The Turkish government deepened its assault on the main opposition party during 2025, while at the same time pursuing an end to the four-decade conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2026.“The Erdoğan government has spent the past year attempting to remove political opponents and rivals and pursuing a barrage…

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