THE OBSERVATORY: ONGOING ARBITRARY DETENTION / JUDICIAL HARASSMENT

                                                                                         New information                                                                             TUR 001 / 0509 / OBS 070.3                                                     ONGOING ARBITRARY DETENTION /…

TURKEY – DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER MS FILIZ KALAYCI FACES TRIAL

  Detained   human rights   lawyer Ms Filiz Kalayci will   face   the second   hearing   of   her   trial  …

TURKEY: RIGHTS DEFENDER ARRESTED

TURKEY: RIGHTS DEFENDER ARRESTEDNew Crackdown on Kurdish Mayors and Activists (New York, January 12, 2010) –…

TURKEY: WRITER AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER DETAINED

On 24 December 2009, human rights lawyer, writer and PEN Turkey member Muharrem Erbey was arrested…

AIM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Letter of Support and Solidarity

Utrecht, 6th of January 2010 Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends of Insan Haklari Derneği (IHD), Aim for…

FREE MUHARREM ERBEY!

Copenhagen/Paris – 31 December 2009: On 24 December 2009, Muharrem Erbey, General Vice Chairperson of the…

TURKEY: THE HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION (IHD) REMAINS IN THE FIRING LINE

Paris – Geneva, December 29, 2009. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a…

END THE COERSION! WE WANT FREEDOM!

  END THE COERSION! WE WANT FREEDOM!STOP THE COERCION ON IHD’S DIYARBAKIR PROVINCE BRANCH System, and…

DECLARATION OF THE THIRD EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MEETING OF THE FAMILIES OF THE DISAPPEARED

FEMED IHD YAKAYDER MOTHERS FOR PEACE On December 11, 12 and 13, the associations of the…

TURKEY SHOULD NOT PERMIT SUDANESE PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING OF THE ORGANISATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE IN TURKEY

TURKEY SHOULD NOT PERMIT SUDANESE PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING OF THE ORGANISATION…