Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center 10-19 February 2020 Daily Human Rights Report
TIHV Human Rights Report
Category: Turkey
Melet: Van has become a city of prohibitions
IHD Van Branch chair Murat Melet stated that Van has become a city of prohibitions and said that bans are not governor-bound, but are the will of the political executive.
Protest against racist gynecologist in Hakkari
In the state hospital of Hakkari in Northern Kurdistan a racism scandal is looming. Hundreds of Kurdish women are reporting racist treatment by a doctor and coercion to terminate their pregnancy.
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Başak: increased violations of rights in prisons in Van
Kinyas Başak from TUHAY-DER Van Branch said that the rights violations in prisons have gone beyond isolation and reached the level of torture.
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Deportation and torture exposed in Tekirdağ prison
Political prisoners who were deported from Tekirdağ T Type Prison, which is planned to be converted into a woman and child prison, were subjected to harassment and strip searches.
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Mother of Hevrin Khalaf at EP: Join hands against Erdoğan
Speaking at the Kurdish Conference at the European Parliament, mother of Hevrin Khalaf called on women of the world to join hands against the Erdoğan regime.
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HRW: Turkey: Kurdish Mayors’ Removal Violates Voters’ Rights- End Politically Motivated Arrests and Trials
The Turkish authorities’ removal and arrest of democratically elected Kurdish mayors across southeastern Turkey violates voters’ rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The Turkish government is intensifying its attack on the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) by removing the mayors and preventing the functioning of elected local councils across Turkey’s southeast.
ÖHD: Isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is a system issue
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) denounces that 71 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Turkey had also agreed, the most fundamental human rights are still violated by Turkey on a daily basis.
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