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OHCHR:Report on the impact of the state of emergency on human rights in Turkey, including an update on the South-East January/December 2017 March 2018

Posted on March 10, 2018July 10, 2019 By Centre Kurde Genève 681 Comments on OHCHR:Report on the impact of the state of emergency on human rights in Turkey, including an update on the South-East January/December 2017 March 2018

Contents

I.Executive summary

II.Introduction
A.Background and scope of the report
B.Methodology
C.Protection concerns for individuals cooperating with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
D.Applicable legal framework

III.Human rights in the context of the state of emergency
A.Effects of the Constitutional amendments on the separation of powers
B.Effects of presidential decrees enacted during the state of emergency
–1. Subject matter and scope of presidential decrees
–2.Interference with the independence of the judiciary
–3.Arbitrary dismissals of civil servants and private sector employees
–4.Torture and ill-treatment
–5.Violations of the rights to freedoms of expression and movement
C.Commission of Inquiryfor State of Emergency Practices

IV. Update on the situation in South-East Turkey

V.Conclusions and recommendations

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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