Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Afrin region’s jurists asserted that the Turkish state does not take into consideration the legal principles against the detainees, and that it “tries to lay false accusations against anyone who obstructs its dirty policy in order to hide its criminal arena from view.”
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik yesterday, after 238 days of hunger strike while in custody. The Observatory, which is holding the Turkish authorities responsible for her death, calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all human rights defenders arbitrarily detained in the country, including lawyer Aytaç Ünsal, who has been on hunger strike for over six months and whose health has sharply deteriorated.
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The displaced from Afrin, living in al-Shahba canton, condemned the silence of the humanitarian organizations towards the people of Afrin and said, “The Turkish state is deliberately attacking women.”
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Despite the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus in the women’s ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison and the transfer of several prisoners with the virus symptoms to the hospital, a mass mourning ceremony is being held in this prison daily by order of prison officials.
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Haşim Gezer and Garibe Gezer are brother and sister. They are in Elazığ Prison and Kayseri Women’s Prison and both are ill. They told their sister about the violations of their rights. There is isolation in prison, but no medicines are given
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On the Day of the Disappeared, the Istanbul Initiative of Saturday Mothers has once again called on the Turkish government to clarify the fate of the missing and sign the UN Convention against Disappearances.
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Village guards are involved in the cutting in the villages of Cevizdibi (Cifanê), Dağkonak (Nerex), Gilindor, Nêvava and Anıldı (Gundikê Remo) in Şırnak Cudi Mountain Region in Turkey.
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Turkish soldiers and village guards continue to slaughter wild animals, especially mountain goats and sheep. Thousands of species live in the beautiful land of Hakkari and Van, on its high mountains, deep valleys and clear waters.
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