The detention of Mehmet Sıddık Akış, the mayor of Hakkari, earlier this week (June 3, 2024) and the appointment of a trustee to the DEM Party-affiliated municipality is a grave interference with democratic values, the exercise of constitutional political rights and the will to live together. It is a fundamental …

STATEMENT FOR PRESS AND GENERAL PUBLIC Sezgin Tanrıkulu is not alone! September 11, 2023 We know Sezgin Tanrıkulu, MP for Diyarbakır, as a human rights defender, lawyer, and civil society representative. As civil society organizations, we consider his being an MP with these qualities and some of the work he …

It is planned to cut down trees in Akbelen forests in Işıkdere, the former settlement of İkizköy, where Yeniköy Thermal Power Plant is located in Milas district of Muğla. This plan will expand the lignite field close to the region. If this plan is realised, 740 decares of the forested …

s Turkey enters a new election process, the government prepared a new law bill to control the spread of all kinds of news and information and submitted it to the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Although the bill, which foresees changes in many laws and consists of a total of 40 …

On 20 July 2022 as a result of lethal artillery fire in Zakho district of the province of Dohuk within the boundaries of Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region, 9 civilians including 2 children were killed and at least 22 people were injured. We deeply deplore the incident, remember the lost souls …

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The right to defend our rights is a fundamental right. We demand the release of rights defenders and revocation of the investigations and cases filed against them ! 24 October 2017 As we explained in detail in the file notes[1] announced to the public on 11 July, 14 August and …

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an announced the new Democratisation Package on 30 September 2013. The Package cannot be regarded as insignificant in terms of its content and scope. Topics mentioned in the Package are important as they are relevant to the rights and freedoms defined by international conventions and to …

Joint Press Release By Center for Truth Justice Memory, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Turkey, Human Rights Associations, Human Rights Research Association, Human Rights Agenda Association, ?nsan Haklar? ve Mazlumlar için Dayan??ma Derne?i, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey 31 July 2013   Military personnel who were accused of committing crime, killing or …

Mass hunger strike in Turkish prisons, which started on 12 September 2012, is on the 56th day. Hunger strikers declared that the strike was a non-alternate one to be carried out for an indefinite period of time. Human rights organizations monitoring the prisons stated that 654 prisoners were on hunger …