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Turkey: Kurdish Songs and Dances Are Not Terrorist Propaganda

Statement by Emma Sinclair-Webb, Associate Director and Turkey Director of Human Rights Watch

Turning Kurdish wedding parties into crime scenes by arresting and prosecuting guests and musicians is only the latest example of how for decades the Turkish authorities have perverted the criminal justice system to target legitimate activities and political expression by Kurds.

Male Violence Monitoring Report August 2024

Men killed at least 27 women and 6 children in August. 

Turkish drone terror in Northern Syria and Kurdistan Region of Iraq continues

The global threat of Islamist terrorism is increasing. The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria is an important entity in the fight against this. Turkish drone terror is weakening the region and paving the way for the resurgence of ISIS. Immediate sanctions from the international community are needed here. 

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Today marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. We remember the thousands who have been forcibly disappeared in Turkey. We call for clarity about their whereabouts and for accountability of those responsible.

World Peace Day 

On World Peace Day, let’s keep doing all we can to encourage more peace, democracy and freedom in the world. 

In the context of Turkey, we will continue to work for a political solution to the Kurdish question and a democratisation of the country and thus the region.

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Prof. Kariane Westrheim
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Turkey: Kurdish Songs and Dances Are Not Terrorist Propaganda

Statement by Emma Sinclair-Webb, Associate Director and Turkey Director of Human Rights Watch

Male Violence Monitoring Report August 2024

Men killed at least 27 women and 6 children in August. 

Turkish drone terror in Northern Syria and Kurdistan Region of Iraq continues

The global threat of Islamist terrorism is increasing. The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria is an important entity in the fight against this. Turkish drone terror is weakening the region and paving the way for the resurgence of ISIS. Immediate sanctions from the international community are needed here. 

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Today marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. We remember the thousands who have been forcibly disappeared in Turkey. We call for clarity about their whereabouts and for accountability of those responsible.

World Peace Day 

On World Peace Day, let’s keep doing all we can to encourage more peace, democracy and freedom in the world. 

In the context of Turkey, we will continue to work for a political solution to the Kurdish question and a democratisation of the country and thus the region.

—
EU Turkey Civic Commission
www.eutcc.net
Twitter: @EUTCC1
Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission
Instagram: @eutcc1

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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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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. 

EU Turkey Civic Commission
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Twitter: @EUTCC1
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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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