Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The Turkish authorities’ removal and arrest of democratically elected Kurdish mayors across southeastern Turkey violates voters’ rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The Turkish government is intensifying its attack on the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) by removing the mayors and preventing the functioning of elected local councils across Turkey’s southeast.
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) denounces that 71 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Turkey had also agreed, the most fundamental human rights are still violated by Turkey on a daily basis.
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The situation of sick prisoners in Turkish prisons continues to deteriorate. Political prisoner Adnan Yalçın has not been treated for five years despite being seriously ill.
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The heads of the state do not want the public to object to their own policies, lawyer Demir said. Underlining that there has been an intense pressure on the people and institutions in Van for 4 years, lawyer Cemal Demir said that all the services that the municipalities provide to the public are considered a crime.
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Afrin displaced and people of Sherawa district hold the international and human rights organizations responsible for their silence on violations by the occupying Turkish state by targeting civilians in Al-Shehba district and Sherawa district.
The Dicle-Firat Association of Journalists, DFG has published a report on press freedom in Turkey: “In the opinion of the government, no one can be a journalist who does not engage in government propaganda. There can only be one-sided reporting.”
Read More “DFG: Four journalists sentenced to prison in January” »
Kudret Temel, co-chair of the Association of Solidarity Prisoners’ Families (TUHAY-DER) Van branch condemned the isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Read More “Tuhay-Der: Isolation on Öcalan should be removed” »
The story of the displaced from al-Taybeh village of Girê Spî / Tel Abyad canton Mahmoud Hami is similar to the stories of the thousands of displaced people who were deserted by the Turkish occupation after their occupation of their city and villages after the brutal attack launched in October 9th of this year.