Category: Turkey

Report reviews the dam construction policies in South Kurdistan

June 7, 2020December 30, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

New Report by Save the Tigris on the Dam Construction Policies of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Reports, Turkey

HDK: The AKP destroys nature

June 5, 2020December 30, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

The Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Ecology Council issued a written statement to mark World Environment Day. The HDK called on everyone to “act and organise in order to build a new and more ecological life.”

News, Turkey

Turkish parliament strips three MPs of immunity

June 4, 2020December 30, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

The Turkish Parliament on Thursday approved stripping three of its members of immunity from prosecution. Two HDP MPs and one CHP MP had their parliamentary immunity removed on Thursday.

News, Turkey

Dilges, 3 years old in a prison

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Dilgeş is only three years old. He has been in prison with his mother for almost two weeks. He suffers from kidney disease and cannot eat the prison food. Because there is no hot water, he cannot have a bath.

Children, Turkey

International solidarity with lawyers Timtik and Ünsal

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

365 lawyers from many countries signed a petition signed to the Supreme Court for jailed lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaş Ünsal who are on death fast. Family of Timtik appeal on people to speak out for the two lawyers.

Prisons, Turkey

Tortured by the police are remanded in custody

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

M.E.C and F.A, who were remanded in custody after being detained in Amed. Two people who were detained with M.A were released on bail.

Turkey

Turkey reduces water supply to North Syria

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

Turkey, with the help of its GAP dam system, has again reduced the flow of the Euphrates. Less than a third of the prescribed amount of water now flows into Syria and Iraq.

Syria, Turkey