Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
On 19 August 2019, the Ministry of Interior has released a statement early in the morning saying that Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van municipality mayors from HDP [Peoples’ Democratic Party] were removed from office and they were replaced by the governors of the same cities.
Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform issued a written statement on the invasion of trustees and the detained journalists.
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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center – 20 August Report
Our Municipal Co-chairs, who were elected with 63% of the vote in Diyarbakır, 56% of the vote in Mardin and 53% of the vote in Van, have been removed from duty with an Interior Ministry order based on lies and unlawful grounds. A severe operation of detentions targeting our municipal council members and employees continues at this moment.
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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center -17/19 August Report
The primary and sine qua non rule of democracy is to recognize the will of constituents. To respect and protect such will are the tasks of everyone in order to promote peace and democracy, to be able maintain one’s status as a citizen. IHD and HRFT, thereby, invite the political power to drop the assignment of state trustees and reinstate elected mayors, and call on all citizens to protect peace and democracy, thus, to protect their own will.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center -10/15 August Report Operations and Attacks in Southeast… Ministry of National Defense made a declaration on August 9, 2019 and announced that 2…
On 26 July 2019, the Constitutional Court’s General Secretariat delivered an important judgment about Academics for Peace cases. The Court ruled for a violation of the right to freedom of expression by a majority vote within the scope of the application Zübeyde Füsun Üstel and others (app. no. 2018/17635). The applicants were among the signatories of the call “We Will Not Be a Party to This Crime!” drafted and made public by Academics for Peace in January 2016 and they were convicted by various first instance courts on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization.” İHD welcomes the Constitutional Court’s violation judgment for the sake of human rights and democracy.
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