Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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In the trial against Kurdish politician Leyla Güven, the public prosecutor’s office has requested a sentence of up to 25 years in prison for “founding and directing a terrorist organization”, although the main prosecution witness withdrew her statement.
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The Kurkut family responded to the acquittal in the case of Kemal Kurkut, a 23-year-old university student who was murdered by a policeman in the Newroz celebration in Amed (Diyarbakir) in 2017, stating that justice is once again murdered.
Sexual Assault of Security Staff at Repatriation Center in Van…: It is learned from the news coverage of November 14, 2020 that, an Iranian woman Z. M. who was kept in Kurubaş Repatriation Center of Provincial Directorate of Migration Management in Van, was subjected to sexual assault of 2 security officers (İ. H. K. and Y. V.) on July 26, 2020.
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The 16th hearing of the case, in which 33 people lost their lives in an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide attack on 20 July 2015, was held at the Urfa Courthouse 5th Criminal Court. The decision has been made not to prosecute Abdullah Ömer Aslan, one of the key figures in the Suruç suicide attack case.
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Four hundred and fifty-three women were killed in Turkey in the first 10 months of the year, according to a report by the the Centre for Sociopolitical Field Studies. The report is prepared by collecting data from various websites, such as the We Will Stop Femicide Platform, Bianet, Jîn News, and the Mesopotamia News Agency.
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Recently released from Patnos Prison in eastern Turkey, journalist Aziz Oruç defines the outside world as “a partial freedom” and adds: “We need to foster journalists’ solidarity regardless of who works for which newspaper.”
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According to main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu’s “Report on Occupational Homicides in Turkey”, which covers the period when the AKP has been in power, 25 thousand 716 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in 18 years.
Person Died in Prison…: It is learned from the news coverage of November 11, 2020 that, Sıtkı Bektaş an ill prisoner kept in Tekirdağ F Type Prison, had gastric bleeding and lost his life at Edirne Public Hospital.
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