Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Mezopotamya Agency (MA) Van office and the houses of four journalists in Van province were raided by the police three days ago, October 6. The operation targeted the journalists who documented with a hospital report that villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who had been detained by Turkish soldiers during an operation in the rural areas of Çatak district, had been thrown from helicopter.
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“Regardless of their political opinion, all people who are sincere and have self-respect should side with the HDP. I see no other way out,” Eren Keskin explains in view of the lack of rights in Turkey.
Feleknas Uca and Hisyar Ozsoy, Co-spokespersons of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Foreign Affairs, released a statement on the brutal torture suffered by two Kurdish civilians in the countryside of the Van province.
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Servet Turgut, one of the two villagers thrown from a helicopter by Turkish soldiers lost his life.
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The government’s policy of impunity towards torturers bears as a consequence an increase in the cases of torture in Van in recent years. As a tragic irony, the tortured person is often sued instead of the torturer.
In Turkey, arrest warrant has been issued for 82 people in 7 cities in connection with the Kobanê protests in October 2014. The mayor of Kars, Ayhan Bilgen and former MP Sirri Süreyya Önder have also been detained.
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UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances says most of its reccomendations were ignored by Turkey where a culture of impunity prevails.
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