The main objective of the visit was to examine the situation of patients held in psychiatric hospitals, in particular as regards living conditions and treatment (including electroconvulsive therapy – ECT). The delegation also looked into the legal safeguards...
One anti-Kurdish "expert" after the other began to populate the TV screens appealing to the government to put this "ridiculous" peace discourse to an end, which, they claimed, only butter the terrorists’ bread. We also learnt that the Turkish...
The survey, titled “Elites and Social Divisions,” was conducted by two academics at İstanbul Bilgi University among 40 well-educated individuals in high-level professional positions. The survey aimed at understanding the views of such individuals, seen as...
When members of the special Turkish police unit Jitem arrived at night, Kurdish inhabitants of southeast Turkey knew there would be another disappearance. Investigators are now looking into the activities of this allegedly disbanded secretive organization from the...
The main objective of the visit was to examine the situation of patients held in psychiatric hospitals, in particular as regards living conditions and treatment (including electroconvulsive therapy – ECT). The delegation also looked into the legal safeguards...
Mr. Kamangar taught at an elementary school in the northwestern Iranian city of Kamyaran, where he was a member of the Kurdistan Teachers Union and wrote for various underground human rights publications. He secretly taught his Kurdish students their banned language...
