FIDH Deputy Secretary General is Finally Free!

  FIDH and 45 of its member organisations around the world celebrate the release of their…

COVID-19: Jailed Human Rights Defenders Must Be Released Immediately

8 April 2020 In light of the serious threat posed to prisoners by the rapidly spreading…

İHD Statement on the Re-detention of Osman Kavala

20.02.2020   İHD Statement on the Re-detention of Osman Kavala   Businessperson and human rights defender…

Joint Statement on the Büyükada Trial: Justice for Rights Defenders

19 February 2020 İstanbul, Çağlayan Courthouse   We would, first of all, like to state that…

CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Invites Turkey to Restore Judicial Independence

In a report published today, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, calls…

İHD and EuroMed Rights Joint Statement on the Gezi Trial

The Gezi trial or the systematic criminalisation of Turkish civil society Brussels, 27 January 2020 The…

Urgent Appeal by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

    Turkey: Harassment of several HRDs as a reprisal for their calls for peace and…

İHD Warns of Open and Imminent Threats against HRDs

  Peace and Human Rights Defenders Face Open and Imminent Threats in Turkey in the Person…

İHD Statement on Güldane Kılıç

29 June 2019   İHD’S KARS BRANCH CHAIRPERSON GÜLDANE KILIÇ SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE RELEASED   İHD’s…

Special Report: Increased Pressure on HRDs, İHD and Its Executives

The Turkish Republic has a nation-state constitution and structure with an official ideology that is not…