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Police detain co-chair of Human Rights Organization, Öztürk Türkdoğan

Posted on March 19, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Police detain co-chair of Human Rights Organization, Öztürk Türkdoğan

Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of the Human Rights Organization, was arrested in the early hours of the morning in Ankara. Various HDP executives also taken into custody. The co-chairman of the Human Rights Organization (IHD), Öztürk Türkdoğan was taken into custody in the early morning hours. In the political operation carried out in the morning there…

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News, Turkey

HDP MP Gergerlioğlu stripped of parliamentary status

Posted on March 17, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
HDP MP Gergerlioğlu stripped of parliamentary status

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a member of parliament since 2018 for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) representing Kocaeli province, was found guilty in February 2018 of “spreading terrorism propaganda” on the basis of a 2016 social media post that did not advocate violence. Turkey’s top appeals court upheld the conviction and sentence of two years and…

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News, Turkey

Open the Gates of Imralı Prison now!

Posted on March 15, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Open the Gates of Imralı Prison now!

Rumors are spreading on social media that Abdullah Öcalan has died in prison. The Asrin Law Office, which represents the PKK founder and other prisoners on Imralı, demands immediate communication with their clients. International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan” calls on international institutions to act immediately. The Commission on Foreign Relations of the…

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News, Press Releases, Turkey

14 Bar Associations: Hunger strikers’ demands should be fulfilled

Posted on March 15, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
14 Bar Associations: Hunger strikers’ demands should be fulfilled

After a meeting promoted by Bingöl Bar Association, presidents of 14 bar associations in the Kurdish region released a joint statement. 14 bar associations in Turkey’s Kurdish region warned that hunger strikes in Turkish prisons have serious consequences for the health of prisoners and called for the legal demands of the prisoners to be fulfilled…

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News, Prisons, Turkey

80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

Posted on March 14, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

At least 80 journalists and media employees are currently in prison in Turkey, according to the media rights organization MLSA. The IFJ describes the country ruled by Erdoğan as the “largest jailer of journalists in the world”. At least eighty journalists are currently in prison in Turkey. This was announced by the media rights organization…

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News, Turkey

Amnesty İnternational: JOURNALISTS MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY

Posted on February 28, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Amnesty İnternational: JOURNALISTS MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY

Amnesty International calls for the release of five journalists in Kurdistan Region. Reactions are growing to the latest arrest of 5 journalists and activists from Behdinan by the KDP which already holds nearly 50 journalists behind bars in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq. On 16 February, the 2nd Erbil (Hewler) Criminal Court, in the Kurdish Region…

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Iraq, Press Releases

Written Statement: Violations of the Turkish-backed armed factions in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic

Posted on February 28, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Written Statement: Violations of the Turkish-backed armed factions in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention A/HRC/46/NGO/74 Written statement* submitted by Partners For Transparency, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Personal safety of civilians in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) has become very difficult to attain due to…

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OHCHR, Syria, War Crimes

SHOR: Turkey’s gangs digging near the Roman Amphitheater in Nabi Huri, Afrin

Posted on February 27, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
SHOR: Turkey’s gangs digging near the Roman Amphitheater in Nabi Huri, Afrin

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that military groups of the Turkish-backed factions returned excavation work in the surrounding areas of the “Roman amphitheater” near the Nabi Huri fortress in Shera district in Afrin countryside, north-west Aleppo. According to SOHR sources, Turkish-backed militiamen have used heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries for digging and excavating…

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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