Author: Centre Kurde Genève

HDP: Instead of fighting coronavirus AKP fights Kurds

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Co-spokespersons of HDP’s Foreign Affairs Commission said; “While the whole world is busy with finding ways to fight the virus, the Turkish government is using the pandemic climate as an opportunity to use the vilest forms of repression against Kurds.”

Feleknas Uca and Hişyar Özsoy, co-spokespersons of HDP’s Foreign Affairs Commission, issued a written statement about the eight HDP-run municipalities seized amidst the fight against the coronavirus.

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Civilians injured confronting attempt of stealing by Turkish mercenaries

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Four civilians were injured from the village of Sukkaria in the countryside of the occupied Girê Spî by a group of Turkish mercenaries who opened fire on them while trying to steal sheep from the village.

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Bingöl Bar Association: Deciding on government orders is a constitutional crime

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Bingöl Bar Association President Hanifi Budancamanak, who stated that some illegal actions were carried out in the judiciary said: “It is a constitutional crime to make a decision or to establish an unfair action in line with the demand and instructions of the government.”

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CPT Statement of principles relating to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

March 23, 2020March 30, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CPT statetement:

News, Prisons

Report confirms prisoners not given masks, gloves, disinfectant

March 23, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) and MED Federation of Solidarity Associations with Families of Prisoners (MED-TUHAD FED) visited 12 prisons in the cities of Nortth Kurdistan amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus in Turkey and compiled a report to expose the situation and denounced that prisoners are not given masks and disinfectants.

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Human Rights Watch: Turkey must protect all prisoners from Corona epidemic

March 23, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Human Rights Watch warned against the Turkish government’s selectivity in dealing with the possible release of some prisoners, said that there should be no discrimination on the basis of political opinion, and demanded that the amnesty include all prisoners who did not commit violence.

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‘Release all prisoners’, 20 associations say

March 22, 2020December 30, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

“The lives of prisoners who are sadly deprived of hygiene conditions in normal times and who have difficulty in accessing their right to health are in great danger because of the Covid -19 outbreak.”

News, Prisons, Turkey

Human rights organizations demand release of prisoners

March 21, 2020March 25, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Human rights organisations in Turkey are calling for immediate protection measures for prisoners in view of the Corona pandemic. Turkish prisons are extremely overcrowded with 300,000 inmates.

Prisons, Turkey