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Landmark Ruling on “Conscientious Objection”

Posted in Political Activism, Political prisoners, tagged , , , on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey for a breach of Article 9 on freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Applicant Erçep’s lawyer Alsancak said the verdict manifested the right to conscientious objection in Turkey.

Source:BIA

On Tuesday (22 November), Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the conditions of shortened military service through payment. Males 30 years of age or older will soon be entitled to apply for paid military service. They will have to pay TL 30,000 (€13,000) and will not receive basic military training. (more…)

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German Sociologist Found in Mass Grave in Van

Posted in Crimes against humanity, Gender violence, Political Activism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged , on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

After the investigation of a mass grave in Çatak/Van, it was reported that the remains of German Sociologist Wolf were found among the approximately 40 bodies in the cave.

Source: Kurdishinfo

A mass grave found in a cave in the district of Çatak (south-eastern Kurdish-majority city of Van) is supposed to contain the remains of German sociologist Andrea Wolf among a total of about 40 bodies. An investigation revealed that the people buried in the mass grave were killed with bullets.
This was the first investigation about the Çatak mass grave. Sami Görendağı, Branch Secretary of the Human Rights Association (İHD), was part of the delegation and talked to bianet about what they encountered in the cave. (more…)

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Police used tear gas against women

Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish women, Political Activism, Violence against women, women's rights Turkey, tagged , , , on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In Diyarbakır and Cizre police brutally assaulted women marching using tear gas and wounded several women.


Source: ANF

The Women Initiative for Peace has organized a meeting at 6pm in Taksim Square in İstanbul to protest against the government position and the current deadlock in the Kurdish problem. Spokesperson of Initiative, Nebile Irmak Çetin, emphasized that many women, including writers, intellectuals and performers from different cities and ethnic background, will sit in the square for peace until midnight. Irmak also indicated that the government budget needs to be spent for public health, education and social-security instead of war. (more…)

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Deputy Leyla Zana writes to Obama and Ban Ki-Moon

Posted in Political Activism, tagged , on September 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In the testimony of the whole world’s humanity, the geography which has been in a conflict environment for two hundred years is now expecting peace and quiet.

Source:ANF


Diyarbakır deputy Leyla Zana has sent a letter to the U.S. President Barack Obama, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, President of the Council of Europe, Herman Van Rompuy and Turkish President Abdullah Gül regarding the most recent policy implemented against the Kurdish people.

While Turkey’s air strike continues in southern Kurdistan, Diyarbakir deputy Leyla Zana, in a letter to the leaders of the world, criticized the silence over the growing attacks against Kurds. (more…)

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Prisoners burnt alive until turned to charcoal

Posted in Crimes against humanity, Gender violence, Political Activism, Political prisoners, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, tagged , , on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A soldier who was on duty at the Bayrampaşa prison during the “Return to Life” operation confessed  11 years later, ”The detainees wanted to get out of the burning cells and surrender but the doors were not opened, the fire brigade did not intervene”.

Source: BIA

For the first time, Special Gendarmerie Sergeant Altan Sabsız talked about what happened during the “Return to Life” operation in the Bayrampaşa Prison in Istanbul on 19 January 2000.

The “Return to Life” operation was carried out eleven years ago in several prisons in order to solve the so-called “prison problem” in Turkey and end the death fast of prisoners who protested against their transfer to F type prisons with smaller cells. The operation started in the early morning on 19 December 2000 in 20 prisons simultaneously and involved thousands of convicts and ten thousands of security personnel. 32 people died in the operation, among them two soldiers. (more…)

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Kadinlar icin harcamak uzere aldiginiz 80 milyon Euroyu ne yaptiniz Sayin Bakan?

Posted in Gender violence, Political Activism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged , on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Kadinlar icin harcamak uzere  aldiginiz 80 milyon Euroyu ne yaptiniz Sayin Bakan?

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Karakola siginan kadini korumayan polis, alarm calinca gidip kurtaracak!!! Peki gitmedigi icin gorev ihmali yapan polis cezalandirilicak mi? Cunku bugune kadar cinayete mahal veren polise kimse dokunmadi. Yada kadinlarin, gorev ihmali olan polis, hakim, savciyi sikayet edecekleri bagimsiz bir kurum var mi?

Bu Avrupa’dan kopya edilen ama gercekte cok fazla yasam bulacak bir yonteme benzemiyor.  Cunku sistem once erkege toplum icinde yasamanin gereklerini ogretmeli. Bu kurallari tanimayan erkek kelepceyle duracak mi gercekten? Siz once “namusumu temizledim ”diyen adami hakli buldunuz biraktiniz, gerektigi gibi cezalandirmadiniz. Cocuklara isletilen cinayetlerin hesabini buyuklerden sormadiniz, yine kadin katillerini ”cinnet gecirdi”, vs., vs. diye gerekcelendirip cezalarini hafiflettiniz. (more…)

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Turkey’s prominent women NGO’s demand more opportunities in politics

Posted in Political Activism, women's rights Turkey, tagged , on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In the wake of a United Nations report highlighting gender inequality in politics, prominent Turkish women’s organizations are expressing their concerns about a lack of female representation in Parliament and the Cabinet.

Source:News.Az

Women demand more voice in Turkish politics.

Turkey’s prominent women NGO’s together published an ad in the country’s major dailies on Thursday, demanding more opportunities for women in vice-ministry positions and in bureaucry. A recent report by U.N. Women also shows how the rule of law in many countries still excludes women.

“While Turkey ranks as the 16th biggest economy in the world, it concerns us that it ranks 126th in the index of men-women equality,” read an advertisement published Thursday in the country’s major dailies by the Women Who Are Right Platform, which represents 39 NGOs and 90,000 people. (more…)

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Charged with Armed Group Propaganda at 102 years of age

Posted in Kurdish women, Political Activism, tagged , on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

102 years old Lalihan Akbay faces a criminal investigation with charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organization”. Allegedly, she committed the crime during the mawlid (a religious commemoration ceremony) for her son who died in 1985.

Source:BIA

Lalihan Akbay (102) faces a criminal investigation after attending a mawlid, organized for his son, Mehmet Rauf Akbay. He was a PKK member and died on April 16, 1985.

“She can’t even speak, let alone making propaganda” (more…)

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Human Rights violations and the Kurdish question in Iran

Posted in Crimes against humanity, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's right Iran, Political Activism, Political prisoners, tagged , on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Since 2010 Iranian regime has hanged eight Kurdish human rights and political activists who were members of the Free Life party of Kurdistan, including one woman: Shireen Alam Hoye.

Source: ANF

On 30th of June a conference was held in Rome, at the Italian parliament, with regards to democracy, human rights violations and the Kurdish question in Iran.

In the conference some Italian  Senators, Deputy and political activists whom were present expressed their grave concerns over the violations of human rights in Iran, particularly in Kurdish regions of the country.

The Islamic regime systematically executes Kurdish political and Human Rights activists with the aim of spreading fear and of terrorizing the society in order to oblige them to accept its Islamic ideological policies. Kurds, Arab and Baloch national minorities also were present at the conference and presented valuable information about the Islamic regime’s policies against the national, religious and linguistic minorities in Iran. (more…)

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Why the journalist Suzan Zengin is still in prison

Posted in Political Activism, Political prisoners, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Undoubtedly one of the most important issues in international human rights is the issue of unjust imprisonment and political prisoners.

Source: ANF

In many countries in the world, people are being tried simply because of their thinking, acting, struggling or writing. Many are tortured or undergo bad treatment and violence. Police brutality during raids and arrests are known. (more…)

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