Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Mezopotamya Agency (MA) Van office and the houses of four journalists in Van province were raided by the police three days ago, October 6. The operation targeted the journalists who documented with a hospital report that villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who had been detained by Turkish soldiers during an operation in the rural areas of Çatak district, had been thrown from helicopter.
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“Regardless of their political opinion, all people who are sincere and have self-respect should side with the HDP. I see no other way out,” Eren Keskin explains in view of the lack of rights in Turkey.
Feleknas Uca and Hisyar Ozsoy, Co-spokespersons of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Foreign Affairs, released a statement on the brutal torture suffered by two Kurdish civilians in the countryside of the Van province.
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Servet Turgut, l’un des deux villageois kurdes jetés d’un hélicoptère de l’armée turque, dans la région de Van, a perdu la vie ce mercredi matin.
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Servet Turgut, one of the two villagers thrown from a helicopter by Turkish soldiers lost his life.
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The government’s policy of impunity towards torturers bears as a consequence an increase in the cases of torture in Van in recent years. As a tragic irony, the tortured person is often sued instead of the torturer.
United Nations General Assemblyuman Rights Council 45th Session 14 September–2 October 2020 A/HRC/45/NGO/86 Written statement* submitted by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, a non-governmental organization on the roster./ 25 September 2020
Written statement* submitted by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, a non-governmental organization on the roster
While the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in his report on the 2016 mission to Turkey (A/HRC/37/50/Add.1), appealed the Turkish authorities to publicly reinforce its zero tolerance policy on torture, the Government. of Turkey has developed a racist Zero Tolerance Policy towards Kurdish people.
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