Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
IHD said that there were 440 violations of right to life, 447 torture and ill-treatment violations in 2019. IHD co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan said that most of the violations were caused by the Kurdish problem.
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Ibrahim Gökçek, bassist of the socialist band Grup Yorum, led a death fast protest for 323 days in protest at the state repression against his group. With the protest, the 39-year-old musician demanded the lifting of the concert ban of Grup Yorum, an end to the police raids against the Idil cultural centre, the release of all imprisoned band members and the cessation of all legal proceedings.
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The ‘We Will Stop Femicide Platform’ (KCDP) and the Women’s Assemblies issued their April 2020 Application Report. The report stated that the number of women who applied for support denouncing the violence they were exposed to has increased in April. Applications were made mostly from Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Mersin, Adana, Antalya and Kocaeli.
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Kurdistan National Congress (KNK ) prepared an information file on war intensidied against the kurds divert attention from the Turkish States Crisis. In the report you will find the topics: • Deep Economic Crisis, •AKP-MHP Repression and Counterproductive Pandemic Response, •Using the Coronavirus as a Biological Weapon Against Kurds and the Opposition, •The Symbiotic Relationship Between AKP and MHP, •Conflict Producing Foreign Policy, •Neo-Ottoman Military Misadventures with No End in Sight, •Kurds Face COVID-19 and Turkish Military Attacks, •Weaponising water in Rojava/North and East Syria During the Global Pandemic, •Erdoğan Fights for His Own Political Survival by Launching a War in Kurdistan, •The Strategic Importance of Zini Werte, •Kurdistan is Not an Instrument for Turkish Regional Power or Global Hegemony •The Appeal to the UN, European Union, European Council, and OSCE
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Human Rights Association (IHD) Izmir Branch published the report of violation of rights in the city’s prisons in the last 4 months.
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On the occasion of Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) condemned the numerous press freedom violations that have occurred in several countries since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, protection measures for the media have often been insufficient and at least 55 journalists in 23 countries have died from the coronavirus since 1 March, PEC said.
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Amnesty International said in its annual report that the Turkish government’s campaign against the opposition and its critics continued in 2019 despite the end of the two-year state of emergency. “Thousands of people have been held in pretrial detention for prolonged periods, often without any credible evidence that they committed crimes recognized under international law,” said Amnesty International in its report, and stressed that there are severe restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
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