Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Releasing a statement to mark the 1st September International Peace Day, Human Rights Association (IHD) Amed branch voiced concerns over the execution of civilians by state forces and emphasized that the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan wanted peace, not war.
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Human Rights Association (IHD) has released a balance sheet of war for the period from July 21th and August 28th which witnessed an intense wave of detentions, arrests, assaults, torture, murders and executions.
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Human Rights Association (IHD) has released a report of its assessments in Varto district of Muş where Turkish security forces executed civilians and attacked the living areas of the local people earlier this week.
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İHD stated that 872 Kurdish and revolutionaries have been taken under custody, and demanded the end of the operations as well as the isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
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Human Rights Association (İHD) made a written statement on the 29th anniversary of its establishment and called for the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and all political prisoners.
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Human Rights Association (İHD) Amed Branch released report on right violations committed in the North Kurdistan region during the first 6 months of 2015.
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The second hearing in the trial of Dicle University Medicine Faculty student Esra Yakar, who was wounded in a mortar fire attack of ISIS gangs in Kobanê during her stay in the town to provide treatment to the wounded, has been held today.
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One year after the biggest mining disaster in Turkey’s history, on May 13, 2014, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is blocking the path to full justice for the victims and their families, said Emma Sinclair-Webb of the Human Rights Watch in a statement marking the first anniversary of the Soma mine disaster which left 301 workers dead.
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