The Internally Displaced Kurds of Turkey

Acknowledgments

This report was researched and written by Sharon Linzey Phd (KHRP Intern and Professor of Sociology) and Mark Muller QC (Chairman, BHRC). It was edited by Rachel Bernu, Lucy Claridge, Walter Jayawardene, Morten Thorsted and Mustafa Gündoğdu (KHRP) with the invaluable assistance of Christina Wilson, Zeina Talhouni, Kristen Maule and Amy Pepper.

The authors are grateful to Joost Jongerden for his cooperation and assistance in this project.

KHRP gratefully acknowledges the support of The Big Lottery Fund (UK), Irish Aid (Ireland), The Sigrid Rausing Trust (UK), The Corner House (UK), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (Finland), Oak Foundation (USA), Bishop’s Subcommission for Misereor (Germany), Oakdale Trust (UK), Rowan Charitable Trust (UK), Stiching Cizera Botan (Netherlands).
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Keywords: Turkey, Kurds, IDPs, internal displacement, redress, compensation, resettlement, European Court of Human Rights

Printed in Great Britain
September 2007
Published by the Kurdish Human Rights Project (London)
ISBN 978-1-905592-12-8

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