Tag Archives: Human rights

Bianet: “Police violence” application to Council of Europe

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Bar Associations Union of Turkey announced today that it will do a series of application international institutions regarding the judicial and administrative investigations on volunteer doctors by health ministry officials and excessive police force. Bar Associations Union of Turkey held an emergency board meeting after an appeal by its chairperson Metin Feyzioğlu. The union board reached the following decisions by [...] → Read the full article…

Firat News: Repression against Gezi protests increasing

The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK) ruled the closure of Turkish channel Ulusal on Thursday on the grounds of  “lack of license” and “authorization”. In a statement responding to the closure ban, the channel’s General Coordinator of Broadcast, Mustafa Kara, denied the allegations, underlining that Hayat Tv run a satellite broadcast from theTurksat Satellite on the basis of [...] → Read the full article…

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey: Joint statement of the human rights NGOs to the public

The actions initially referred to as the “Gezi Park Protests” which within a short period of time spread beyond Gezi Park and Istanbul are known to the public. The events first began in Istanbul, and later continued in Ankara, İzmir and many other cities of Turkey with widespread police violence against the protesters. Organizations sensitive to human rights focused during [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: “State of Emergency” Application to ECHR

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Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD) urged all police violence victims of Gezi Park resistance to file complaints to be brought to the attention of the European Court of Human Rights according to the “state of emergency” exception in the convention. Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD) officials are currently making efforts towards bringing the attention of European Court of [...] → Read the full article…

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