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Prof. Kariane Westrheim 

EUTCC Chairperson 

PACE visit to Turkey 

Following a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 11-14 June 2024, PACE’s co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Turkey, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and to continue their high-level dialogue with the Council of Europe.

International crime organization leaders in Turkey

During a plenary session of the parliament, CHP MP Cevdet Akay presented a 20.5-meter-long list of names of international crime organization leaders who were wanted with red notices and had been captured in Turkey. 

Travel ban on DEM Co-Mayors

DEM Party has announced that the Interior Ministry has banned the party’s many co-mayors from traveling abroad without a court order.

Bianet Male Violence Monitor June

Men killed at least 34 women and five children in June. Additionally, 30 women died under suspicious circumstances. 

Men killed 193 women in the first six months of the year. 

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Dersim Dağdeviren 

EUTCC board member 

EUTCC statement: Verdict in the Kobane Trial: Ignoring European Rulings

The EUTCC calls on the European institutions to immediately impose political sanctions out of respect for their own decisions. 

http://eutcc.net/?p=1709

Statement by DEM Party Co-Chairs on the verdict in the Kobane Trial 

The court has shown its alignment with ISIS and fascism

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please find below our December 2023 newsletter. 

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Prof. Kariane Westrheim 

Chairperson 

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Turkey leads in pending applications at ECHR with 23,400 cases

Turkey had the highest number of pending applications with 23,397 cases out of a total of 68,450 cases at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) at the end of 2023.

Bianet Male Violence Monitoring Annual Report 2023

Men killed at least 333 women and 28 children

Turkey conducted 198 drone strikes on Northern and Eastern Syria in 2023 These strikes killed 105 people and injured 123.

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Our statement on the wave of arrests against journalists, lawyers, artists and politicians in Turkey in the run-up to the elections 
http://eutcc.net/?p=1381

Statement by HDP Foreign Affairs Co-Spokespersons Feleknas Uca and Hişyar Özsoy on the wave of arrests against journalists, lawyers, artists and politicians 
https://hdpeurope.eu/2023/04/police-operations-against-the-hdp-and-civil-society-organizations/

Justice Ministry says visits to imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan were disrupted due to ‘unavoidable reasons’
https://www.duvarenglish.com/justice-ministry-says-visits-to-jailed-pkk-leader-abdullah-ocalan-were-disrupted-due-to-unavoidable-reasons-news-62243

bianet Male Violence Monitoring Report April 2023 Men killed at least 24 women, inflicted violence on at least 56 women and abused at least four children in a month in Turkey
https://m.bianet.org/english/male-violence/278174-men-killed-24-women-in-april

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Prof. Kariane Westrheim 

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Final resolution 17th EUTCC Conference The Annual International Conference on the EU, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds was hosted by the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) in cooperation with the The Left Group, the Greens-European Free Alliance (GREENS/EFA), the Groups of the Free Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the Kurdish Institute Brussels. The conference was successfully held on 8th and 9th of March 2023 in the European Parliament in Brussels.  
http://eutcc.net/?p=1296

Report by Human Rights Foundation on rights violations in quake zone17 people were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, one person died, and at least 10 people were injured in nine separate incidents in the region.
https://www.duvarenglish.com/human-rights-foundation-of-turkey-reports-17-torture-cases-in-quake-zone-news-61955

Solidarity statement of the Socialists and Democrats, the Greens/EFA and the Left Groups in the European Parliament with the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Turkey The closure of HDP would be an irreversible blow to the democratic system of Türkiye and its relations with the EU. 
https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/publications/solidarity-statement-socialists-and-democrats-greensefa-and-left-groups-european

Statement by the Council of Europe on Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş The Council of Europe has again urged the Turkish authorities to immediately release Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş, in line with judgments from the European Court of Human Rights.
https://search.coe.int/directorate_of_communications/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680aa82c8

Commentaries 23: The Implications of Turkish Interventions in Rojava for US and EU Foreign Policiesby Dr. Veysi Dağ, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and SOAS
This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical academics. It shows how this anti-intellectualism affects the reproduction and re-legitimation of war policies in regards to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. To this end, first it presents excerpts from in-depth interviews with academics who were dismissed from universities by presidential decrees for This paper examines how Turkish invasions into Northern Syria’s Kurdish enclave undermine US and European policy objectives. It argues that the Turkish state, obsessed with Kurdish hostility, endangers American and European foreign policies by further destabilising war-torn Syria, facilitating the empowerment of Islamist extremist groups, impeding a peaceful resolution to Syria’s protracted conflict, and assisting Russia’s anti-Western interests. The paper suggests that the US and Europe could rather deploy a dual strategy aimed at exerting pressure on Turkey to discontinue its disruptive and belligerent actions. To cease targeting anti-ISIS Kurdish forces, Turkey must either resume the Kurdish-Turkish peace process or risk being designated as a rival state, analogous to Russia, and subjected to punitive sanctions.
http://eutcc.net/?p=1280

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