Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Débat général – Promotion et protection de tous les droits de l’homme, civils, politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels, y compris le droit au développement
The unemployment rate in Turkey stood at 13% in June, the Turkish Statistical Institute said on Monday. The figure was 2.8 percentage point up from the same month last year.
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Iranian regime forces carried out yet another attack on kolbars, load carriers for daily wage who earn a living at the border between Rojhilatê (Eastern) and Bashurê (Southern) Kurdistan.
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Mustafa Akyol, former co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) was jailed in Ağrı in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “membership to an illegal organization”.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 14-16 September Report
The occupant Turkish state and its mercenary allies have carried out barbaric attacks on the civilian population of Afrin and unfortunately continue to do so. Furthermore they are destroying nature and the environment.
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On July 17, the South Kurdistan official of the Turkish secret service (MIT) was assassinated in a restaurant in the city of Hewler (Erbil). The security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) then closed all ways in and out of the Maxmur Camp, which is now surrounded and under a strict embargo. While members of the democracy and freedom movement were arrested and tortured, the arrests were carried out by KDP security forces together with representatives of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
Read More “Maxmur Refugee Camp under embargo for two months” »
HDP former co-chair Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş’s lawyers have held a press conference today regarding the September 18 hearing at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Read More “Statement of Demirtaş’s lawyers on ECHR hearing” »