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.
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Tortured by the police are remanded in custody
Category: Turkey
Turkey reduces water supply to North Syria
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.
Barış Çakan, stabbed to death for listening to Kurdish music
Barış Çakan, 20-year-old born in Patnos in Ağrı, and living in Ankara, was stabbed to death.
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Türkdoğan labels security forces violence as “systemic”
Öztürk Türkdoğan, Human Rights Associations (IHD) co-chair, “the expansion of the powers of the police and “neighbourhood guards” has led to an increasing number of attacks on the population in recent weeks” said.
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Hrant Dink Foundation receives death threat
The Hrant Dink Foundation said in a written statement that on 27-28 May 2020 they had received a written death threat via email which included the phrase ‘We may turn up one night, when you least expect it’, a slogan used boastfully in certain circles, and the very same slogan people were well used to hearing before Hrant Dink was so publicly assassinated, and with the knowledge of official bodies, on 19 January 2007.
IHD exposes violation of rights in Van prisons
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Van Branch and Van Prisoners’ Families Aid and the Solidarity Association (TUHAY-DER) published a report after their visit to Van High Security, T and F type prisons.
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Impunity makes children the target of security forces
In Kurdish provinces children are not just the target of state forces such as police or soldiers. In 2010, the state took a step which turned “children who were throwing stones” and who were under 15 into “children who were pushed into crime”.
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Turkish soldiers attack graveyard and a mausoleum in Hasankeyf
The Turkish state systematically targets graveyards and tombs but this time destroyed a mausoleum and tombs in the village of Günesli in Hasankeyf. The Turkish flag was hung on the trees in the graveyard.
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