Human rights defender Lawyer Hüsnü Öndül stated that there will be international sanctions dispersed through time against the pressure Turkey puts on people against war and people who defend peace.
Category: Reports
HRW: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians
Guards at Turkey’s closed border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.
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Justice index reveals global fall in basic justice
More than 70 of 113 countries surveyed for latest Rule of Law Index report their fundamental human rights are being eroded. The survey put Turkey among the worst top 12 in Rule of Law Index.
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Freedom House changes Turkey’s status to ‘not free’
Turkey’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free in Freedom House’s 2017 report on civil and political freedoms in the country.
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Children of Nusaybin speak of torture by Turkish soldiers
Children who were arrested by Turkish soldiers during Democratic Autonomy resistance in Nusaybin spoke of torture at the hand of Turkish soldiers in custody.
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Prisoners in Tarsus: “We have been tortured with electricity”
One of the prisoners in Tarsus Hadi Elçiçek spoke with his son on the phone and told him about the torture they had been subjected to since December 7 and said, “We have also been subjected to torture with electricity.”
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Human Rights Human Rights Week: “Torture has been legitimized in Turkey”
TİHV Diyarbakır Representative Barış Yavuz pointed out that torture has been legitimized by AKP’s blatant practices and said that inhumane torture practices continue in prisons they are not allowed to inspect.
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Kurdish political prisoner tortured heavily in Rojhilat
Kurdish political prisoner Efşin Hisên Penahi, who had been detained and arrested in Rojhilat, has been subjected to torture by Iranian forces. Efşin’s health had suffered after the intense torture, but reportedly hasn’t been taken to a hospital.
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