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The violations of right to life have continuity! »
16 April 2010.
Recent killing incidents directly or indirectly perpetuated by the law enforcement forces pulled the attention on the right to life violations which are the unchanging basic problems and shame of Turkey.
We as human Rights Foundation of Turkey, would like to mention this reality…
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Urgent Call for Action against the Detention of Human Rights Association’s (İHD) Siirt Branch Chairperson Vetha Aydın »
17 March 2010.
Police teams raided on Human Rights Association’s Siirt Branch Chairperson Vetha Aydın’s house in Siirt Province in the morning of 16 Mart 2010 and detained Vehta Aydın in the context of the operation against the members and executives of Human Rights Association and Peace and Democracy Party. Then police teams raided on…
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(End the Coersion! We Want Freedom!) Stop the Coercion on IHD’s Diyarbakır Province Branch »
24 December 2009.
System, and by the way the political power, added new coercions on the opposition. Today early in the morning, human rights defenders, Human Rights Association (IHD) and democratic institutions were raided. In eight provinces, more than 30 politicians, mayors, opinion leaders and human rights defenders –including İHD’s Vice General Chairperson and Chairperson of Diyarbakır Province…
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Evaluation of the Year 2009 from the Perspective of Human Rights on Human Rights Day »
10 December 2009.
Sixty-one years ago on December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We would like to state with sorrow that after 61 years the world order based on rights and freedoms mentioned in the Universal Declaration has not yet become reality. Unfortunately, the basic…
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Sixth International Psychological Trauma Symposium was held in Istanbul on 11-13 December 2009 »
International Psychological Trauma Symposiums have been organized by Medical School of Kocaeli University, Psychiatry Department, Centre for Psychological Trauma; Psychiatric Association of Turkey, Scientific Section for Disaster Psychiatry; Medical School of Istanbul University, Psychiatry Department, Psychosocial Trauma Programme; Turkish Medical Association; Norwegian Medical Association and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey for many years.
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Health as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East »
27–30 October 2009.
On 27–30 October 2009 the HRFT, the Norwegian and Turkish Medical Associations, the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations, and the World Medical Association hosted a meeting on Health as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East. .
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6th Psychological Trauma Symposium (PTS) »
11-13 December 2009/İstanbul.
Dear Colleagues, We are going to come together again at 6th Psychological Trauma Symposium (PTS) in Istanbul between 11 and 13 December 2009. We are living in a world of stressors in our day to day life. Being very valuable and necessary for our becoming a human, on the one part, this variety of stimulants at the same time, unfortunately, houses, an extraordinary variety of factors which cause psychological trauma. Therefore, we have set main theme of 6th Psychological Trauma Symposium as 'Trauma in Daily Life". At this symposium, we…
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Training for Investigation and Documentation of Torture in Nis, Serbia »
April 9-11, 2010.
Training for Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and Hunger Strikes had been a 3 days training which was consisted of 13 sessions and held by Sebnem Korur Fincanci (Professor of Forensic Medicine, Ufuk Sezgin (Assoc. Prof. of Forensic Psychology) and Kerem Altiparmak (Ass. Prof. of Law)…
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Israel’s Attack and Forensic Medicine Process Experienced »
The inhuman dimension of the occupation and siege policy of Israel on the People of Phalestine that has been going on decades revealed itself with the attack of Israel state on the people in the civilian ships in international water. Killing and wounding the defenceless people as a result of the attack on the aid…
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Strasbourg’s Changing Review of Article 3 Custodial Torture Allegations Against Turkey: A Comparative Case Study »
By Chad Priest.
When it was established in Strasbourg in 1959, the European Court of Human Rights did not immediately provide a viable mechanism for Turkish human rights litigation. This was because Turkey, though a founding Member State of the Council of Europe which ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1954, did not initially recognise the…
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Angela M. Mistretta, Ceasefire in Darfur: The 7 year-old war should finish on the 15th of March. »
25 February 2010.
The Sudan President Omar al-Bashir foretold the breaking-news the international community was waiting for since a lot of time: apparently the Darfur conflict is going to be finished. The Darfur conflict devastated the African continent for 7 long years, engendering an upsetting toll: 450 thousands of died and the Diaspora of more than 1 million…
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Lara Iskra, “27th January: Memorial Day, Remembering the Nazi Holocaust”. »
27th January 1945. The Soviet Army discovered the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz and rescued the survivors. On the 27th January 1945 the horror of the Nazi genocide, the mass extermination of the Jewish population came to an end.
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23 July 2010-Daily Human Rights Report »
(07/096) Operations and clashes in South-east…
A soldier was wounded in the attack of HPG militants in the rural part of Dicle District of Diyarbakır Province 21 July 2010 (AA, 22 July).
Two police officers were wounded in the armed attack on a patrolling police vehicle in Ömerli District of Mardin Province on 22 July 2010 (ntvmsnbc.com, 22 July).
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