Ass. Prof. Gűnal Kurşun, a well-known scholar in the field of International Criminal Law and Genocide studies teaching working at the Criminal Law Department of the Çukurova University in...
2016 Press Releases
OPEN LETTER to the Bureau of the Turkish Grand National Assembly From the Human Rights Organisations 13 October 2016 Distinguished Speaker, We write you this letter with reference...
2016 Press Releases
Press Releases
Muzaffer Şakar, executive of Democrat Judiciary Association, Judge at Diyarbakır Court House and Human Rights Defender, must be released!
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...
16 July 2016 Regardless of its reasons, coups cannot be a solution anytime. Last night, we’ve witnessed an attempt of a coup in Turkey. According to some releases, 161...
2016 Press Releases
Press Releases
Government statement regarding the establishment of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey: The issue of the institutionalization of human rights is perceived fully from an instrumental perspective!
18 January 2016 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...
2016 Press Releases
Press Releases
Urgent Call from Turkey’s Human Rights Organizations to the International Community
08 January 2016 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...