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TİHV’s report: What happened in Silvan in 10 days?
TİHV’s report: What happened in Silvan in 10 days?
Documentation Center of TİHV (Human Rights Foundation of Turkey) reported the violation of rights committed against the civilians during the curfew in Silvan district of Diyarbakir. In the report, it is stated that 6 people were killed by the security forces. After the release of TİHV’s report, another civilian was killed in Mescit Neighborhood in Slivan.
13 November 2015
Off with their mustaches!
Off with their mustaches!
98 women were elected to the parliament on June 7, but this number declines to 82 on November 1. Now, the parliament is full of mustaches once again. Women are unhappy because of the unequal representation, but they will carry on struggling for their demands.
4 November 2015 Nazan Özcan
Investigation against Ragıp Zarakolu
Investigation against Ragıp Zarakolu
An investigation against publisher, journalist and human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu is launched.
24 October 2015 Haber Merkezi
Tahir Elçi is released
Tahir Elçi is released
Diyarbakır Bar President Tahir Elçi is released by the court to which he was taken with an arrest warrant.
20 October 2015 Haber Merkezi
Hüda’s journey from Syria to Edirne and then to Lesbos
Hüda’s journey from Syria to Edirne and then to Lesbos
30 September 2015 Pınar Yurtsever
2015 Hrant Dink Awards to women and LGBT rights activists
2015 Hrant Dink Awards to women and LGBT rights activists
2015 Hrant Dink Awards were presented last night at the ceremony that was held in Istanbul. Women rights activist Samar Badawi from Saudi Arabia and Kaos GL Collective that has been fighting for LGBT rights in Turkey for 20 years received the awards.
15 September 2015 Gözde Kazaz
The International Hrant Dink Award Ceremony will be held tonight
The International Hrant Dink Award Ceremony will be held tonight
Today is the 61st birthday of Hrant Dink. The 7th of the International Hrant Dink Award, which is presented every year on September 15 in memory of Hrant Dink, will be presented in Istanbul Convention Center tonight.
15 September 2015 Haber Merkezi
Civil society organizations voice concern: War is not a solution
Civil society organizations voice concern: War is not a solution
Following the Suruç Massacre, and the murder of two police officers in Ceylanpınar, military operations and clashes have resumed. A wave of police operations across Turkey continues. İHD (Human Rights Association) has announced that 41 people lost their lives in the week from 21 to 28 July, and that 1038 people have been detained. Reports of deaths continue to come in every day. President Erdoğan’s demand that the HDP MPs’ parliamentary immunity be lifted has caused further alarm. Human rights organizations and civil society organizations have expressed deep concern regarding recent developments.
30 July 2015
Municipality withdraws support from Science Congress for using the term ‘Genocide’
Municipality withdraws support from Science Congress for using the term ‘Genocide’
The Karaburun Municipal Directorate has withdrawn its support to the 10th Karaburun Science Congress because of the use of the term “1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocide” in its call for attendance.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Targeted pianist Hamasyan: Hate is not the reason we came to Kars
Targeted pianist Hamasyan: Hate is not the reason we came to Kars
Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, who visited Turkey within the scope of his “Luys i Luso” tour, and later became the target of a discourse of hate from the Kars Ülkü Ocakları President, has published a statement.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Armenia: LGBTI community forced to conceal identity to avoid trouble
Armenia: LGBTI community forced to conceal identity to avoid trouble
Nvard Mafaryan, Pink Armenia Project Coordinator, travelled from Armenia to Istanbul to take part in the panel titled “LGBTI Struggle in Neighbouring Armenia” organized on the occasion of the 23rd LGBTI Pride Week, and spoke to AGOS about the LGBTI community in Armenia that is trying to protect its existence against the homophobia of the State and media, and the intersections between the rights’ struggles in Armenia and Turkey. The conversation then inevitably led to the continuing protests in Yerevan.
26 June 2015 Gözde Kazaz
‘We want to screen this documentary at Police Academies’
‘We want to screen this documentary at Police Academies’
Police violence once again arrives on the silver screen with the documentary ‘Article 16: Right to Life’. Co-director Yılmaz Kılıç says, “We did not shoot this documentary, it’s all the work of the police. All we did was to transmit their work.”
15 June 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Trans Pride Week begins
Trans Pride Week begins
The beginning of the 6th Trans Pride Week, which will conclude with a rally in Taksim on June 21 was announced yesterday at a press conference. Speaking at the press conference, Istanbul LGBTI activists said, “We need a law against hate and violence”. The 23rd Istanbul LGBTI Pride Week will begin next Monday.
15 June 2015
Interior Ministry strikes further blow to academic freedom
Interior Ministry strikes further blow to academic freedom
Interior Ministry permission has been imposed on any academic research on Syrian refugees to be carried out at universities. The Higher Education Council (YÖK) decision was taken upon the request of the Migration Administration Department of the Interior Ministry.
21 May 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
Call for ‘zero discrimination’ on International Roma Day
Call for ‘zero discrimination’ on International Roma Day
DurDe (Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism Initiative) and the Sıfır Ayrımcılık/Zero Discrimination Association called for a struggle against the discrimination of Roma on April 8, International Roma Day.
8 April 2015 Mehmet Boran
Investigation launched against conscientious objection site
Investigation launched against conscientious objection site
An investigation has been launched against the web site www. askeregitmeyin .com (don’t do your military service) on charges of ‘alienating the public from military service, and there are reports that the 381 people who contributed to the book are also being investigated.
8 April 2015 Vartan Estukyan
Constitutional Court rejects Nişanyan appeal
Constitutional Court rejects Nişanyan appeal
The appeal to the Constitutional Court regarding Sevan Nişanyan’s cases for opposition to the Code of Protection of Cultural and Natural Properties for which he received long term prison sentences has been rejected. The next legal step is the ECHR.
2 April 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
HDP calls for parliamentary recognition of Halabja Massacre as Kurdish Genocide
HDP calls for parliamentary recognition of Halabja Massacre as Kurdish Genocide
HDP has tabled a parliamentary motion for the recognition of the Halabja Massacre as the Kurdish Genocide, and the declaration of March 16 as Genocide Commemoration Day.
17 March 2015 Haber Merkezi
Are Ozbek refugees being handed over to ISIS?
Are Ozbek refugees being handed over to ISIS?
Aybüke Ekici, General Secretary of the International Refugee Rights Association, has expressed concern over allegations that some Ozbek refugees may have been sent from Suruç to areas under the control of ISIS. Ekici added that they had received reports that ISIS was executing refugees that refused to join them.
19 February 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
Another step towards a police state
Another step towards a police state
The ‘Internal Security Package’ to be discussed in Parliament next week has once again opened the debate on the boundaries of authority to be transferred to law enforcement. Departing from the security package that has become the focus of criticism, we have examined what the new regulations bring, the path followed by such regulations aiming to protect the ‘continuity of the State’ and the background of the criticized stance of the police force.
4 February 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Imminent danger: Lapse of time in enforced disappearance cases
Imminent danger: Lapse of time in enforced disappearance cases
The period of limitation is about to end for many lawsuits regarding enforced disappearances and unsolved murders. If a step is not taken, these files will be closed. The Human Rights Association and the Saturday Mothers have launched a new campaign against the threat imposed by the statute of limitations.
3 February 2015
Dutch Journalist Geerdink charged with ‘terror organisation propaganda’
Dutch Journalist Geerdink charged with ‘terror organisation propaganda’
Arrested and then released last month in Diyarbakır, Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink has been charged with ‘propaganda for a terrorist organisation’ and faces a sentence from 1 to 5 years if found guilty.
2 February 2015
2014: Bloodiest year so far in Syria
2014: Bloodiest year so far in Syria
According to the report released by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 2014 has been the bloodiest year in the civil war in Syria that began in March 2011. According to the report, 76,021 people lost their lives in Syria in 2014.
7 January 2015 Haber Merkezi
Banned from entering ‘open’ archive
Banned from entering ‘open’ archive
Mehmet Uluışık’s story clearly disproves the official claim that ‘archives in Turkey are open to everyone’. According to Uluışık, who has been banned from entering Turkey because of his research on the Armenian and Circassian Genocides in archives, even if this ban were to be lifted, he still would not be able to carry out research since a letter from MİT, the National Intelligence Organization, prevents his entry into archives.
31 December 2014
Human Rights Organizations to establish ‘Foundation for the Investigation of Mass Graves’
Human Rights Organizations to establish ‘Foundation for the Investigation of Mass Graves’
Human rights organizations have taken the decision to act in cooperation to establish a ‘Foundation for the Investigation of Mass Graves’ under the supervision of the Human Rights Association (İHD). The work to discover mass graves will be carried out according to periods, such as the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Kurdish rebellions after 1925, and the Kurdish War.
17 December 2014 Uygar Gültekin
Editorial: They all have dirt on their hands
Editorial: They all have dirt on their hands
The Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one of the country’s greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
10 December 2014