İHD
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2021 Digest
01.09.2021: İHD’s co-chair, Öztürk Türkdoğan, wrote an opinion piece on the pressing need for peace in Turkey: “A Solution Can Be Found by Promoting the Right to Peace.”
https://ihd.org.tr/en/article-a-solution-can-be-found-by-promoting-the-right-to-peace/
01.09.2021: İHD issued a statement on 1 September, marking the World Peace Day in Turkey, underlining why peace and conflict resolution are so vital for Turkey in order to solve its human rights and democracy problems.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-world-peace-day/
04.10.2021: İHD published its annual human rights violations report. The 2020 report presents data on human rights violations in Turkey collected by İHD with a specific focus on the permanent state of emergency and the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-2020-report-on-human-rights-violations-in-turkey/
07.10.2021: İHD held a press conference to share with the public the results of the “Perception Study on Prisons and Prisoners in Turkey” conducted with 3,285 participants in 68 cities and 383 districts by KONDA Research and Consultancy Inc. for the association.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/perception-study-on-prisons-and-prisoners-in-turkey/
10.10.2021: İHD and HRFT issued a joint statement on the anniversary of the 10 October massacre that claimed the lives of 104 people criticizing the authorities who ordered attacks on the memorial services to be held in memory of those who were killed in the bombed attacks.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-statement-on-10-october-2021-memorial-service/
10.10.2021: İHD held its 20th ordinary general assembly on 10 October 2021 in Ankara.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihds-20th-general-assembly/
11.10.2021: İHD released a statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child urging the authorities to consider its recommendations for a better life for girls.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-international-day-of-the-girl-child/
21.10.2021: İHD released a statement objecting to the motion tabled at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to extend the government’s mandate in Iraq and Syria for another two years.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-bid-to-extend-the-governments-mandate-in-iraq-and-syria/