I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Category: Turkey
Keskin: World Health Organization should investigate the Turkish prisons
IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin pointed out the increasingly severe condition of the sick arrestees in prisons and that they had no more opportunities for treatment under the State of Emergency, and called on the World Health Organisation to investigate.
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Raimondi: Isolation of Öcalan is a violation of his right
The ECHR President Guido Raimondi stated that the isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Ongoing military operations and communications blackout in Kurdish village
What’s Happening in Kuruköy? We demand urgent information from reliable sources.
For the last nine days, there has been no communication with the people in Kuruköy (Xereba Bava), a village in Turkey’s southeastern district of Nusaybin (Mardin province), that is under round-the-clock military curfew and has been cut off from electrical and telephone services in the region.
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HDP: Turkey freedom and democracy year in review
TITLES*MEDIA/PRESS FREEDOM*ACADEMIC FREEDOM*CRACKDOWN ON NGOs &CSOs*DISMISSALS FROM STATE INSTITUTIONS*INTERVENTIONS IN THE JUDICIARY *CRACKDOWN ON THE OPPOSITION*CRACKDOWN ON HDP’S PARLIAMENTARY GROUP *CRACKDOWN ON LOCAL AUTHORITIES*VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN*TORTURE IN PRISONS MEDIA/PRESS FREEDOM…
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CİZRE REPORT
The “Democracy and Resolution” announcement made at Newroz in Diyarbakır on 21 March 2013 signified the publizingof an ongoing process of dialoguethat had begun in 2012 with the aim of finding a lasting peace. The text of an accord, that was to pave the way for a more transparent negotiation, was shared with public opinion in the presence of government officials and the Imrali Delegation on 28 February 2015.
HRW: Emergency decrees facilitate torture
Turkish police have tortured and otherwise ill-treated individuals in their custody after emergency decrees removed crucial safeguards in the wake of a failed coup attempt in July, 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
IHD: 1,552 people died in the Kurdish region in one year
IHD Diyarbakir Branch has released the report on human rights violations committed in the Kurdish region of Turkey during the past one year. Accordingly, 1,552 people -who include soldiers, police, village guards, militants and civilians- died in the Kurdish cities during the period from July 24, 2015 to July 24, 2016. 1,683 others were wounded.
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