A trustee was appointed at another HDP Municipality, Cizre. Co-Mayor Mehmet Zırığ confirmed the appointment of the trustee.
Trustee appointed at Cizre Municipality
Category: Turkey
‘They tortured us saying that there is a batting order’
Mahmut Polat (59), stated that the police who raided his home due to his social media shares, tortured his 2 children and took a medical on their behalf without being examined. Polat said that the police told them there is a batting order, and said: “The government ordered us to shoot if we must, we can kill you here.”
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Ex-U.N.investigator: Erdogan should be charged with war crimes
“An investigation should be opened into him and he should be charged with war crimes. He should not be allowed to get away with this scot free,” said a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
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Amnesty International: Turkey: Syrians illegally deported into war ahead of anticipated ‘safe zone’
Turkey spent the months leading up to its military incursion into northeast Syria forcibly deporting refugees to the war-torn country, in advance of attempting to create a so-called “safe zone” on the Syrian side of the border, a new Amnesty International report ‘Sent to a War Zone: Turkey’s Illegal Deportations Of Syrian Refugees’ has revealed.
Petition for Kurdish singer and her daughter jailed in Turkey
Kurdish singer Hozan Cane has been imprisoned in Turkey for more than a year. Her daughter Gönül Dilan Örs was also jailed. A petition asks the federal government to act more decisively for the release of the two women from Cologne.
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The report on police violence in Ankara: 1,436 people taken into custody in 9 months
The report on police violence in Ankara included detention, arrest, disappearance and abduction, as well as violations of demonstration and freedom of expression.
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HRFT Report of 1 Oct
Operations and Attacks in Southeast…
On September 30, 2019, a person named Ferhat Şimdi, alleged to be a HPG militant, died in the clash during an operation of security forces to a house in Istasyon neighbourhood of Mardin’s Artuklu district.
IHD: Release Gürbüz Solmaz Now!
On 29 September 2019, numerous individuals have been arrested by the police following raids into their residences in Dersim early on a Sunday morning. These persons include former and current executives of Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (Halkların Demokratik Partisi –HDP) Dersim provincial organization.