2009 HUMAN RIGHTS EVALUATION

In 2008 evaluation, we claimed that public demands for the establishment of a democratic system based…

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…

ANOTHER HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS WERE ARRESTED

ANOTHER HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS WERE ARRESTED FREDOOM TO LAWYER MUHARREM ERBEY! Lawyer Muharrem Erbey, Vice President…

THERE MUST BE AN END TO ILLEGAL PRACTICES AND DETENTIONS

Yesterday (25.12.09) those struggling for peace, democracy and human rights once again experienced deeply injurious and…

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…

DEMOCRATIC OPENING PROCESS TURNED TO BE A NATIONAL UNITY AND INTEGRITY PROCESS WITH THE CLOSURE OF DTP. AN IMMEDIATE RETURN FROM THIS FAULT IS NEEDED.

In the human rights week, Constitutional Court closed Democratic Society Party (DTP) on 11 December 2009…

WE’RE TIRED OF DEATHS; POLITICS SHOULD GIVE PEOPLE LIFE, NOT KILL THEM

Yesterday another one of our lives was lost.  Deaths of people in our region have become…

PEACE ACTIVIST MS. YUKSEL MUTLU AND TRADE UNION MEMBERS WERE RELEASED

Ms. Yuksel Mutlu, who is the spokesperson of the Turkey Peace Assembly and a member of…

OPEN LETTER TO MR. RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN, PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

To Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey: In 2006, changes were…