Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
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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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.
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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The situation of sick prisoners in Turkish prisons continues to deteriorate. Political prisoner Adnan Yalçın has not been treated for five years despite being seriously ill.
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The Dicle-Firat Association of Journalists, DFG has published a report on press freedom in Turkey: “In the opinion of the government, no one can be a journalist who does not engage in government propaganda. There can only be one-sided reporting.”
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Kudret Temel, co-chair of the Association of Solidarity Prisoners’ Families (TUHAY-DER) Van branch condemned the isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
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The Human Rights Association (IHD) Van Branch said the report it prepared on the violations of rights in the city in 2019 recorded 1,657 violations.
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Background; The present report was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 16/21, taking into consideration the periodicity of the universal periodic review. It is a compilation of information contained in reports of treaty bodies and special procedures and other relevant United Nations documents, presented in a summarized manner owing to word-limit constraints. Full English Report in PDF