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Human Rights in the Kurdish Region of Turkey


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Éditeur : KHRP Date & Lieu : 2009, London
Préface : Pages : 58
Traduction : ISBN : 978-1-905592-25-8
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 148x210 mm
Thème : Politique

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Human Rights in the Kurdish Region of Turkey

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE KURDISH REGION OF TURKEY: THREE PRESSING CONCERNS FACT-FINDING MISSION REPORT

The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) organized a fact-finding mission to the Kurdish region of Turkey from 1 to 7 May 2009 to gather information on the human rights situation there, with a particular focus on impunity of state officials, women’s access to justice and restrictions on the work of human rights defenders. The mission interviewed local MPs, mayors, human rights activists, lawyers and journalists in the provinces of Şırnak, Siirt, Mardin, Batman and Diyarbakır in order to assess developments in these areas in recent months.

Broadly speaking, the human rights situation in the Kurdish region of Turkey remains profoundly troubling. This fact was underlined in the aftermath of the local elections in March 2009, with the detention or investigation of hundreds of pro-Kurdish politicians and activists. It is also borne out by statistics prepared by KHRP’s partner organisation İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association of Turkey, İHD), which in the course of 2008 in the province of Siirt alone, recorded 77 reported cases of torture and ill-treatment and more than 380 instances of violationsof the right to freedom of expression.1 In addition to ongoing human rights violations such as these, the Turkish authorities have also continued to fail in their responsibility to effectively address the widespread abuses of the recent past. This issue was again brought to the fore in the first half of 2009 by excavations of wells alleged to contain the remains of some of the many who ‘disappeared’ at the height of the conflict in the region in the 1990s...


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HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE KURDISH REGION OF TURKEY: THREE PRESSING CONCERNS
FACT-FINDING MISSION REPORT

BY EDEL HUGHES AND SANIYE KARAKAŞ

AUGUST 2009

KURDISH HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT
BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Kurdish Human Rights Project
11 Guilford Street
London
WC1N 1DH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 207 405-3835
Fax: +44 (0) 207 404-9088
khrp@khrp.orgwww.khrp.org
The Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation
founded and based in London, England. A registered charity, it is dedicated
to promoting and protecting the human rights of all people in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere, irrespective of race, religion, sex, political persuasion or other belief or opinion. Its supporters include Kurdish and non-Kurdish people.

Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
Garden Court Chambers
57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London, WC2A 3LS, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7993 7755
Fax: +44 (0) 207993 7700
bhrc@compuserve.com
www.barhumanrights.org.uk
The Bar Human Rights Committee is the international human rights arm of the Bar of England and Wales. It is an independent body primarily concerned with the protection
of the rights of advocates and judges around the world. It is also concerned with defending the rule of law and internationally recognised legal standards relating
to the right to a fair trial. The remit of the BHRC extends to all countries of the world, apart from its own jurisdiction of England and Wales.

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Keywords: Arbitrary arrest and detention, detention, disappeared persons, discrimination, extrajudicial executions, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of expression, human rights, inhuman treatment, Kurds, fact-finding missions, torture, Turkey, violence against women.

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