Published by TIHV, april 2016 FACT SHEET on DECLARED CURFEWS BETWEEN AUGUST 16, 2015 and APRIL 20, 2016 and CIVILIANS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ACCORDING to the DATA of HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION of TURKEY DOCUMENTATION CENTER Between the dates August 16, 2015 and April 20,...
Published by The Guardian 3 May 2016 Reporters for pro-Kurdish media are routinely detained, while those of pro-government outlets cannot always write what they want Refik Tekin, an award-winning photographer and video journalist, had been covering the curfew...
Published by CPT 2 May 2016 Strasbourg, 02.05.2016 – A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a two-day visit (28 and 29 April 2016) to the F-type...
This article was posted on ICN on April 30, 2016. Six members of the Imrali Peace Delegation visited Strasbourg from 18 – 22 April to call upon the Council of Europe to persuade its member Turkey to resume the peace talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned...
Published by Now. 25 April 2016 Kurdish troops have been locked in fierce fighting with pro-Assad militiamen in the border city. BEIRUT – The Syrian regime has allegedly deployed troops from its elite Republican Guard division to Qamishli, where Kurdish forces have...
Published by Al-Monitor 27 April 2016 In the tranquility of Oxford, I was having a lunch with Eugene Rogan, a renowned historian and the director of the Middle East Centre of Oxford University. Last year, he had published a book, “The Fall of the...