Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Background; The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21, taking into consideration the periodicity of the universal periodic review. It is a compilation of information contained in reports of treaty bodies and special procedures and other relevant United Nations documents, presented in a summarized manner owing to word-limit constraints. Full English Report in PDF
Violations of human rights in prisons of Tekirdağ, Sincan, Tarsus and Konya are increasing.
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Turkey’s human rights record is examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time today. The session at UN Geneva headquarters is attended by UN member states and civil society organizations.
Turkish-backed mercenary groups have cut down numerous olive trees in the village of Kafarjana in Afrin’s Shera district.
According to sources on the ground, the mercenary group Liwa al-Waqas have cut down 400 40-year-old trees in the villages of Sanara and Hakaha in the Shiye district.
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Political prisoner Hüseyin Polat spent 24 years in Turkish prisons. On January 25, he suffered from gastric bleeding.
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Human Rights Association (IHD) Van Branch President Murat Melet talked about the isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Saturday Mothers met for the 774th time in Istanbul to demonstrate against the state practice of murdering people in custody and making the bodies disappear, demanding that the perpetrators be punished.
Turkey’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Tuesday, 28 January 2020.
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