Menteş and Others v Turkey: Village Destruction in Turkey
Kurdish Human Rights Project
Compte d’auteur
The IHD (insan Hakları Derneği) (Human Rights Association) was established in July 1986 with the purpose of promoting human rights and civil liberties in Turkey. It is a non-governmental organisation with nearly 16,000 members and 58 local branches around Turkey. One of the activities of the Diyarbakir branch of IHD of IHD is to assist individuals who have suffered a violation of their human rights to obtain a domestic remedy and if this fails, to assist them in applying to the European Commission of Human Rights. IHD staff have been arrested and subjected to intimidation on many occasions. Recently, on 12 May 1998, Akin Birdal, head of IHD in Ankara was shot in his office by unidentified gunmen. Depsit having been hit 6 times by bullets, his life is now out of danger.
2 Reports available from KHRP include:" Akduvar v Turkey, the story of Kurdish villagers seeking Justice in Europe", October 1996; "The destruction of villages in south east Turkey, 1996; "Aksoy v Turkey and Aydin v Turkey, a case report ...
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