Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Speaking on the 8th anniversary of the Roboski Massacre, HDP Ferhat Encu said: “From arrest to punishment, the State tried to make us give up the struggle [for justice] by constantly resorting to the judicial mechanism”.
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The Istanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) paid tribute to the victims of the Roboski Massacre at Beşiktaş Barbaros Hayrettin Square.
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For more than four months now, the Turkish state has again been relying on the total isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. We public interview with prominent lawyer and Co-Chair of IHD Eren Keskin about the situation on Imrali. She says that the Imrali system affects the whole society.
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the Human Rights Association (IHD) Ankara Branch, Nuray Çevirmen, said that there are 457 sick prisoners in the country’s jails. The Sick Prisoners Initiative drew attention to the situation of sick prisoners Mikail Aslan and Engin Sayak, in Bolu F-Type Closed Prison, in the 276th week of their action.
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After hearing the situation of Nun Verde Gökmen living alone in the Mor Dimet Church in the Village of Zaz (Izbırak as the changed Turkish name) in Tur Abdin (Midyat region), the Istanbul Branch of Human Rights Association, Committee Against Racism and Discrimination, visited the Nun several times and had telephone conversations and correspondence with Isa Acan, chairman of the Zaz Village Association in Hamburg, starting in July 2017.
It has been disclosed that the prison administration of Tarsus threatened prisoners with threats such as “You don’t deserve to live, we can do anything to you”.
Chairman of the German Central Council of Yazidis, Irfan Ortaç, said that there are at least still 2 thousand 600 Yazidi women and children missing.
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According to figures from the Stop the Killings of Women Platform 430 women were killed in 2019 in Turkey so far. This number continues to increase in December. According to the same platform figures, the number of women who died in 2018 was 440. This number rises with each passing year in parallel with the increase in AKP anti-women policies.
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