Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar makes propaganda with the PKK POWs killed in the Gare invasion. Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, who himself was a POW, says: “A state that massacres its…
Lawyer Ozgur Fayek Arul, “the attorney of the leader Ocalan,” explained that the Imrali prison system was built on conditions for imposing isolation, and now during every political and legal…
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A twenty-year-old was allegedly shot in the back by soldiers in Van. Mehmet Ali Nametoğulları reports on the army attack, in which he was heavily injured. On 7 February, 20-year-old…
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More than 100 people were subjected to torture and maltreatment, 16 civilians lost their lives in the conflict and the right to assembly was often restricted, according to the Human…
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Human Rights School has prepared a new report regarding the pressure on academics in Turkey. The report has shown that academic staff has become an instrument of pressure in itself…
Sedat Karak is held in Maraş Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison. In a phone call with his family he denounced that him and four other prisoners were attacked by guards….
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The agency is channeling public ads to pro-government newspapers while preventing independent outlets’ income from ads, says media ombudsperson Bildirici. The Press Advertising Agency (BİK) imposed public ad bans on…
Read More “Five newspapers got 88 percent of ad penalties by Press Advertising Agency” »
M. Ali Nametoğulları, shot by Turkish soldiers in Van, is struggling for his life. His father Iskender Namtoğulları said that his son had got out of the vehicle and had…
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