Stop Turkey’s military offensive November 20th Turkey launched a new offensive against the area of the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many civilians were killed, a hospital and grain depots were destroyed. With this offensive, the… Continue reading
STOP TURKEY’S ILLEGAL AND INHUMANE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS On 18 October 2022, footage of HPG fighters was released showing symptoms consistent with lethal poisoning by chemical agents. Only a few days earlier, Dr. Jan van Aken and Dr. Beppe Savary-Borioli,… Continue reading
Press ReleaseFor immediate release 6 August, 2020 New CPT reports on Turkey The Council of Europe’s anti-Torture Committee (CPT) recently published two reports on prison’s conditions in Turkey. CPT’s visit in May 2019 to Turkey was to examine the treatment… Continue reading
On the occasion of the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council, we sent a letter to HR/VP JosepBorrell to draw the attention to the recent deplorable Turkish disregard for human rights, democracy, and the very rule of domestic/international law. Joseph… Continue reading
It is with sadness we received the message that our good dear friend and true advocate for the rights of the Kurdish people, the Norwegian lawyer and human rights activist Jon Rud, has passed away. Jon Rud died in Valencia,… Continue reading