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Taken under custody on 11 August 2016, Muzaffer Şakar –executive of Democrat Judiciary Association and one of the judges at Diyarbakır Court House– is a human rights defender well-known to all institutions and bodies dealing with human rights issues and well-respected due to his work on human rights and specifically …

Deputy PM and gov’t spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş has shared with the press the cabinet decree on the establishment of the “Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey”, an issue on the agenda of the cabinet during its 11 January 2016 meeting. Noting that the institution was taken up in the …

With the interruption of the peace talks, the government of Turkey started, in mid-August, to implement a security policy that unlawfully restricts fundamental rights and freedoms in those cities and towns largely populated by Kurds. Since August 2015, long-term and consecutive curfews have been declared in the provinces of, 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 …

IHOP released the KCK Trial Monitoring Report at a press conference in Ankara on 15 April 2011. The report was prepared within the framework of IHOP’s studies focusing on the rule of law. Lawyers Hüsnü Öndül, Murat Dinçer and Kerem Dikmen examined the KCK case and prosecution on the basis …

IHOP updated its translation pool with the latest general comment of UN Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee and UN Fact Sheets as a part of its human rights defenders capacity building programme. The translations are available in Turkish for public use and free of charge. Please click for the …

IHOP translated the preliminary note of Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, on his visit to Turkey during 16-23 February 2006.       * Click here for the original version in English.    * Click here for Turkish version.

Human Rights Joint Platform translated the 2002 visit report of former UN Right to Education Special Rapporteur Katarina Tomasevski.

Human Rights Joint Platform launched the beta version of its database for rights based NGOs in Turkey. The database is still being developed and aims to provide necessary information for establishing communication and sharing among the human right movement.   Please visit this page for the database. (Turkish only)

Demo version of the new database of IHOP for monitoring human rights in Turkish legislation is launched. Database is available only in Turkish and may be reached via a banner on the Turkish main page. The demo version of the database includes legislative mechanism on freedom of expression. The complete version …