Thirty Kurdish students have been arrested in association with being a member of an illegal organisation and organising activities on behalf of an illegal organisation. The students are not part of any organisation, but in the past year hundreds of …
Posted in Trials, Turkey, Youth | Leave a commentThe Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has applied to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Uludere massacre, which led to the killing of 35 Kurdish civilians. Turkey has not ratified the Rome statute, which means it does …
Posted in Suppression, Trials, Turkey | Leave a commentKurdish politician Mahmut Alınak has been arrested on suspicion of being associated or having links with KCK. Last month, he was arrested in Istanbul and later released because it could not be established that he had secret ties with KCK. …
Posted in BDP, Call to Actions, Discrimination, Trials, Turkey | Leave a commentEuropean lawyers federation AED and ELDH have urged the Turkish government to release Kurdish lawyers imprisoned in the KCK investigation. In a joint statement, they concluded the following; We are deeply concerned about the arrests of lawyers and raids on …
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