Category: News

Report on women and state commissioner in local governments

Posted on By Centre Kurde Genève

After 40 years of war, in spite of the intense efforts by Kurdish popular leader Mr. Öcalan to achieve a lasting peace through democratic negotiation methods, AKP government declared war on 30 October 2014, with the scope of their plan called “forced collapse.” Against this war, the local people went on to struggle to protect their existence. In this period, many cities and villages –including Şırnak, Cizre, Silopi, Sur, Nusaybin, Yüksekova and İdil– were destroyed by heavy artillery and an estimation of 2360 people, including 368 unarmed residents lost their lives. Over 400,000 people have been displaced during the process.

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Reports, Women

HDP: We will not be silenced, we will not be stopped…

Posted on By Centre Kurde Genève

Our Municipal Co-chairs, who were elected with 63% of the vote in Diyarbakır, 56% of the vote in Mardin and 53% of the vote in Van, have been removed from duty with an Interior Ministry order based on lies and unlawful grounds. A severe operation of detentions targeting our municipal council members and employees continues at this moment.

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News, Turkey

IHD THIV Joint Statement on HDP Mayors’ Removal from Office and the Appropriation of Municipalities

Posted on By Centre Kurde Genève

The primary and sine qua non rule of democracy is to recognize the will of constituents. To respect and protect such will are the tasks of everyone in order to promote peace and democracy, to be able maintain one’s status as a citizen. IHD and HRFT, thereby, invite the political power to drop the assignment of state trustees and reinstate elected mayors, and call on all citizens to protect peace and democracy, thus, to protect their own will.

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News, Press Releases, Turkey

IHD:Constitutional Court’s Judgment on Academics for Peace

Posted on By Centre Kurde Genève

On 26 July 2019, the Constitutional Court’s General Secretariat delivered an important judgment about Academics for Peace cases. The Court ruled for a violation of the right to freedom of expression by a majority vote within the scope of the application Zübeyde Füsun Üstel and others (app. no. 2018/17635). The applicants were among the signatories of the call “We Will Not Be a Party to This Crime!” drafted and made public by Academics for Peace in January 2016 and they were convicted by various first instance courts on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization.” İHD welcomes the Constitutional Court’s violation judgment for the sake of human rights and democracy.

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News, Turkey

NRLS: ISIS’s violations against women and children

Posted on By Centre Kurde Genève

The culture of justifying physical and spiritual murder in the name of faith and religion is nothing but an anomaly that expresses a perverse criminal mentality about the general behavior and morality of human societies. Whatever its motives and justifications, the violation of the right to life and encroachment upon these rights is outside of the realm of humanity itself, and the infringement on the life of dozens of people can only be interpreted as barbaric behavior far from human morals and values. Read more in PDF

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Children, Reports, War Crimes, Women