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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please find below our current newsletter. 

Kind regards 

Prof. Kariane Westrheim 

Chairperson 

Our statement: Doves of peace needed instead of hail of bombs

Turkey must immediately stop its attacks in Iraq and Syria, which violate international law. This requires condemnation, clear measures and immediate sanctions from the international community, above all the United Nations and the European Union, against Turkey. 

http://eutcc.net/?p=1824

Turkish Airstrikes on Northern Syria 

Update by the Rojava Information Center

Information note following the fact-finding visit of the Monitoring Committee

Co-rapporteurs: Mr Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Ms Jill Mortimer (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Statement by Human Rights Watch on EU’s migration support to Turkey 

While Turkey is engaged in summary deportations of Syrians and Afghans, the European Union continues to provide funds for migration management to Turkey. The EU should make sure its migration support to Turkey is not used to violate rights.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

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Dersim Dağdeviren
EUTCC board member

Nobel Laureates for Mr. Öcalan’s Freedom & Negotiations 

69 Nobel Laureates address the Committee of Ministers of the CoE, the ECtHR, the CPT & the UN Human Rights Committee and call for Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation conditions to be lifted, his release and renewed peace negotiations between Turkey and the PKK

http://eutcc.net/?p=1743

Statement: Turkey’s anti-Kurdish war escalation 

The EUTCC condemns Turkey’s anti-Kurdish war escalation and calls for an end to the invasion policy that violates international law, an immediate package of measures against Turkey’s expansionist foreign policy and an immediate visit by the CPT to the prison island of İmralı. 

http://eutcc.net/?p=1740

Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture on Turkey 

The Committee should ask the state party to supply detailed information about the steps it is taking to halt acts of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment committed by its military forces and intelligence personnel, together with affiliated local militias, that constitute not only human rights violations but potential war crimes and ensure that all individuals under its control, including military personnel and armed groups, adhere to international human rights law and humanitarian law, in particular the absolute prohibition on torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please find below our current newsletter. 

Kind regards 

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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Dear Sir or Madam,

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Kind regards 

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. 

Kind regards 

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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