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Category: Turkey

80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

Posted on March 14, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

At least 80 journalists and media employees are currently in prison in Turkey, according to the media rights organization MLSA. The IFJ describes the country ruled by Erdoğan as the “largest jailer of journalists in the world”. At least eighty journalists are currently in prison in Turkey. This was announced by the media rights organization…

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News, Turkey

HDP Law and Human Rights Commission:143 people detained in two days

Posted on February 15, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
HDP Law and Human Rights Commission:143 people detained in two days

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) released a statement about the detention of students and politicians in several provinces across Turkey over the past two days. At least 143 people were detained, according to the party. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Law and Human Rights Commission released a statement on Saturday (February 13) and announced that at least…

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News, Turkey

Yaylalı: “The fate of the prisoners in Gare was clear since the beginning of the invasion”

Posted on February 14, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Yaylalı: “The fate of the prisoners in Gare was clear since the beginning of the invasion”

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar makes propaganda with the PKK POWs killed in the Gare invasion. Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, who himself was a POW, says: “A state that massacres its own soldiers is capable of anything.” Tayyip Erdogan announced glad tidings on February 8 in his “speech to the nation” on Wednesday. Then on Wednesday,…

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Iraq, News, Turkey

Lawyer Abdullah Ocalan: Imrali system must be eliminated

Posted on February 14, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin
Lawyer Abdullah Ocalan: Imrali system must be eliminated

Lawyer Ozgur Fayek Arul, “the attorney of the leader Ocalan,” explained that the Imrali prison system was built on conditions for imposing isolation, and now during every political and legal event in Turkey this question is raised, “How will this situation affect Imrali?” He stressed the need to abolish this system for Imrali. Any way….

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News, Prisons, Turkey

Soldiers beat me and then shot me, says Mehmet Ali

Posted on February 13, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin
Soldiers beat me and then shot me, says Mehmet Ali

A twenty-year-old was allegedly shot in the back by soldiers in Van. Mehmet Ali Nametoğulları reports on the army attack, in which he was heavily injured. On 7 February, 20-year-old Mehmet Ali Nametoğulları was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Van with a gunshot wound in the back and traces of…

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News, Turkey

IHD Report documents rights violations in Kurdish-majority regions in 2020

Posted on February 12, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin
IHD Report documents rights violations in Kurdish-majority regions in 2020

More than 100 people were subjected to torture and maltreatment, 16 civilians lost their lives in the conflict and the right to assembly was often restricted, according to the Human Rights Association. The Human Rights Association (İHD) has released its human rights violations 2020 report in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolian regions. There was a…

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Reports, Turkey

REPORT ON VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM, ‘Self-censorship has become the “normal” of Turkey’s academia’

Posted on February 10, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin
REPORT ON VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM, ‘Self-censorship has become the “normal” of Turkey’s academia’

Human Rights School has prepared a new report regarding the pressure on academics in Turkey. The report has shown that academic staff has become an instrument of pressure in itself and academics censor their own course materials. Prepared by Demet Sayınta from Human Rights School (İnsan Hakları Okulu), the Academic Freedom Violations in the Post-State…

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Reports, Turkey

Prisoner in Maraş Türkoğlu prison denounces beating and torture

Posted on February 10, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin

Sedat Karak is held in Maraş Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison. In a phone call with his family he denounced that him and four other prisoners were attacked by guards. Ill prisoner Tenzile Acar should be released, says her mother Karak shared the following information: “30-40 guards entered the A-17 room where we stayed. The…

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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