Tag: Kurds
Kurdish journalists fear Turkish operations will continue until they are all behind bars
9th June 2022
KURDISH journalists appealed for urgent international solidarity today, fearing that the latest wave of arrests in Turkey will not stop until they are all behind bars. The appeal followed raids on the homes of editors ...
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ECtHR rules Turkey violated MPs’ rights by stripping them of immunity in 2016
1st February 2022
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the freedom of expression of 40 former lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) by lifting their parliamentary immunity through a constitutional ...
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Top court finds no rights violation in lengthy pretrial detention of Kurdish politician
1st February 2022
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no rights violation in the five-year pretrial detention of a Kurdish politician, which it said had lasted for only three years, one month, describing the measure as proportionate, the Mezopotamya ...
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