Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The occupant Turkish state and its mercenary allies have carried out barbaric attacks on the civilian population of Afrin and unfortunately continue to do so. Furthermore they are destroying nature and the environment.
Read More “Turkish soldiers and mercenaries cut 300 olive trees in Afrin” »
On July 17, the South Kurdistan official of the Turkish secret service (MIT) was assassinated in a restaurant in the city of Hewler (Erbil). The security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) then closed all ways in and out of the Maxmur Camp, which is now surrounded and under a strict embargo. While members of the democracy and freedom movement were arrested and tortured, the arrests were carried out by KDP security forces together with representatives of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
Read More “Maxmur Refugee Camp under embargo for two months” »
HDP former co-chair Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş’s lawyers have held a press conference today regarding the September 18 hearing at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Read More “Statement of Demirtaş’s lawyers on ECHR hearing” »
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 12 September Report
In Bağlar district in the northern Kurdistan city of Amed (Diyarbakır) a child was hit by an armored vehicle of the police on Wednesday and was critically injured.
Read More “Six-year-old hit and critically wounded by police vehicle in Amed” »
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 10 September Report
Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) Middle East correspondent tells in a detailed article about the plight of colleagues in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
Read More “South Kurdistan journalists: Freedom of expression hit hard” »
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