Fifty-two police officers in Turkey died by suicide in the first seven months of 2026, amid persistent concerns over long working hours, workplace harassment, financial difficulties and psychological stress within the country’s police force, according to the Police Suicide Memorial platform. The figure amounts to roughly one police suicide every four days, indicating a continued increase in the pace of suicides among police officers. Seventy-three officers died by suicide in 2024 and 82 serving officers in 2025. Thirty-five percent said they had considered suicide, while nearly three-quarters said they knew a colleague who had attempted or died by suicide. The study found that the suicide rate among police officers was 3.78 times higher than that of Turkey’s general population.