Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
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.
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.
The Human Rights Joint Platform called for the murder of Tahir Elçi not to be left in the dark. In a statement regarding the case of Tahir Elçi, former President of the Amed (Diyarbakır) Bar Association, who was murdered in 2015, the Human Rights Joint Platform demanded that “all public officials who are responsible for negligence in the murder be included in the case”.
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Families of Abdurrahman Er (Muhammed Beşiksiz) and Mazlum Dağ wrote an open letter to the Kurdistan Regional President Mr. Nechirvan Barzani asking him to halt the execution of the two Kurds. Necmettin Er wrote an open letter to the Kurdistan Regional President Mr. Nechirvan Barzani on behalf of the families of Kurdish youth Abdurrahman Er (Muhammed Beşiksiz) and Mazlum Dağ.
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Law and non-governmental organizations in Istanbul informed the public on 282 bodies buried under sidewalks in Kilyos Cemetery after being removed from Garzan Cemetery in Yukari Ölek village of Bitlis.
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The Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) in Amed published its ‘September Report on Violations of Journalists’. The report said: “In September there was almost no day without repression of journalists. In September access to several websites and and agencies was blocked, the main purpose being that of preventing the dissemination of news not liked by the government. Televisions were also targeted with screen blackouts.”
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