As the Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders - Turkey, whose foundations were laid in the first months of 2019 and who officially declared its establishment with the call of 13 institutions on 17 December 2019, we invited you to provide an account of the last year and to explain the intensified attacks against human rights defenders in recent months.
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Instagram last week blurred a post shared by Amnesty Turkey on the case of 18 students and one academic who are being prosecuted for their participation in a Pride march on the campus of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (METU) on May 10, 2019.
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We, the undersigned human rights organisations, believe that the only just outcome in the unfair prosecution of 19 human rights defenders for their participation in a peaceful Pride march on the campus of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (METU) on 10 May 2019 is their wholesale acquittal at their next hearing on 10 December at 09:00 UTC+3.
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The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) deeply regrets the development of 26 November 2020 in the so-called “Istanbul 10” case, in which the Istanbul Regional Court upheld the Court of First Instance’s 3 July ruling against eleven Turkish human rights defenders.
Following the strongly worded interim resolution by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers demanding Turkey release Osman Kavala from prison immediately, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said:
The joint statement of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Goethe Institute, the European Cultural Foundation and the Mercator Foundation to members of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the German Bundestag in full:
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On the 5th anniversary of the killing of Tahir Elçi, 43 international lawyers and human rights organizations issued a statement to draw attention to the case:
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The undersigned organisations are deeply concerned about the recent attacks and politically-motivated police custody measures against prominent civil society actors and political opponents in southeast Turkey. Our organisations call on the authorities in Turkey to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defenders and other civil society representatives and drop all charges against them, as they are being targeted for their human rights work.
As part of an investigation conducted by the Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor's Office against the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), five people, including Turkish Medical Association (TTB) High Honorary Board member Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp, were arrested on charge of "being members of the organization" yesterday (November 23).
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Today, on 20 November 2020, numerous rights defenders, lawyers, and CSO representatives were taken into custody in Diyarbakır and nearby cities following morning raids to their homes within the scope of investigation no. 2019/63324 initiated by Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. The grounds for these arrests were reported to pertain to charges within the scope of an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress, which has almost become routine.