Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The wildfire at Mount Gabar in the province of Şırnak is spreading more and more. Extinguishing attempts are prevented by the Turkish army. A forest fire broke out in Setkarê village as a result of the fire opened from Kalecik military base in Beytüşşebap district of Şırnak.
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Throughout history, the Yazidis have been subjected to attacks and massacres because of their religion, at the hands of the Arabs and “the Seljuks, the Oghuz, the Mongols, the Tatars, the Ottomans and the Turks, the British, and finally ISIS.”
Kurdish people is considered one of the most an ancient people who settled in Mesopotamia region, whose history dating back thousands of years, and have had major role in the path of the history and democratic civilization, but they are marginalized till the present day,
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Call from Turkish and Kurdish Ecology Organizations on the fossils in the Mediterranean Sea. Climate disaster is real. Early this year Australia was burning, now California and Siberia are burning. The Greenland Ice Shelf is melting, the North Pole may soon be ice free.
The women in north and east of Syria were considerably mistreated by Turkish occupation and its gangs, especially in the occupied areas, in addition to politicians, lawyers and journalists’ women inside Turkey were exposed to suppress, preventing them to express their views, and arrest them on daily basis.
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Since mid-September, Turkish police carried out largescale dawn raids across Turkey in which dozens of politicians, political activists, lawyers, and other civil society actors were detained under “terrorism”-related charges. The raids are the latest wave in what has become a routine practice by law enforcement authorities with a significant adverse impact on the exercise of human rights, deepening the climate of fear and repression across the country.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), expressed concern over the arrest of four journalists during a raid on the offices of the pro-Kurdish news agency Mezopotamya Ajansı (MA) in the Turkish province of Van. This was in response to their role in reporting on allegations that Turkish soldiers tortured two civilians, Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut, and threw them out of a helicopter. Turgut later died in hospital.
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According to the data reported by the Ankara branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) in September 2020, 20 prisoners died in the first nine months of the year. Currently, a large number of ill prisoners are expecting to be released. One of the ill prisoners, Ali Boçnak, died in Patnos L-Type prison on September 24, and his son, Şakir Boçnak, urgently demands the release of other ill prisoners so that other families do not experience the same pain.