{"id":1112,"date":"2022-07-03T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:52:53","slug":"newsletter-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Sir or Madam,<br>Please find below our monthly newsletter.\u00a0<br>Kind regards\u00a0Kariane Westrheim\u00a0EUTCC Chairperson\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Statement by S&amp;D on the progress report prepared by MEP Nacho S\u00e1nchez Amor, the European Parliament\u2019s rapporteur on Turkey&nbsp;<\/strong>The S&amp;D urges Ankara to end its authoritarian drift and stop accommodating Russia. Turkey should instead align with the EU sanctions imposed against the Kremlin.&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu\/newsroom\/no-grounds-resuming-accession-negotiations-ankara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu\/newsroom\/no-grounds-resuming-accession-negotiations-ankara<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press conference on the situation of political prisoners in Turkey in the Geneva Press club<\/strong>Speakers: Lawyers for Freedom R. Erg\u00fcl, Asr\u0131n Law Office R. Sar\u0131ca &amp; Permanent Representative&nbsp;to the UN, American Association of Jurists G. Fattorini&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genevapressclub\/status\/1536982517571407873?t=oat5n_8ZcbKBpTKq4vb0kg&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/genevapressclub\/status\/1536982517571407873?t=oat5n_8ZcbKBpTKq4vb0kg&amp;s=19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eren Keskin, co-chair of Human Rights Association on paramilitary forces in the Kurdish majority areas of Turkey<\/strong>&#8220;These paramilitary structures are free to do anything while civil society considered to be terrorists.&#8221;&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/mezopotamyaajansi35.com\/en\/ALL-NEWS\/content\/view\/175192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/mezopotamyaajansi35.com\/en\/ALL-NEWS\/content\/view\/175192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Briefing by World Organisation Against Torture&nbsp;<\/strong>Authorities in Turkey use anti-terror laws as a weapon against human rights work, criminalizing thousands of peaceful activists.&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omct.org\/en\/resources\/reports\/turkey-the-instrumentalization-of-the-counter-terrorism-legislation-and-policies-and-their-impact-on-hrds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.omct.org\/en\/resources\/reports\/turkey-the-instrumentalization-of-the-counter-terrorism-legislation-and-policies-and-their-impact-on-hrds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Refugee Day<\/strong>The number of&nbsp;refugees&nbsp;around the world has surpassed 100 million.&nbsp;On World Refugee Day, the EUTCC remains committed to democratisation in the Middle East and Turkey. A political solution to the Kurdish question is an essential factor here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>EU Turkey Civic Commission<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eutcc.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.eutcc.net<\/a><br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir or Madam,Please find below our monthly newsletter.\u00a0Kind regards\u00a0Kariane Westrheim\u00a0EUTCC Chairperson\u00a0 Statement by S&amp;D on the progress report prepared by MEP Nacho S\u00e1nchez Amor, the European Parliament\u2019s rapporteur on Turkey&nbsp;The S&amp;D urges Ankara to end its authoritarian drift and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}