HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Racists target young Kurdish man in Ankara 

  A young man named Volkan Temel was the victim of a racist attack with knives and sticks. The racists who attacked Temel said: "Dirty Kurds, Türközü will be your grave."
• Police abduct coffin of Vedat Çem Erkmen 

  The body of Vedat Çem Erkmen, who died suspiciously in prison, was abducted by the police.
• Authorities perform autopsy on prisoner Vedat Çem Erkmen without waiting for family and lawyers 

  The autopsy of prisoner Vedat Çem Erkmen, who died under suspicious circumstances, was carried out without waiting for his family and lawyers.
• Another suspicious death in prison 

  Vedat Erkmen was imprisoned in Tekirdağ F Type Prison and died on Sunday night in suspicious circumstances.
• 'NGOs should make more efforts to end the isolation’ 

  Attr. Burhan Arta stressed the importance of all NGOs and legal organizations working together to end the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners with him.
• Veli Saçılık: Prisons are not a place of defeat but resistance 

  21 years ago, sociologist and HDP politician Veli Saçılık lost his right arm in a prison massacre. The operation at the time was intended to establish an unopposed society throughout Turkey.
• Another Kurdish political prisoner executed in Iran 

  The execution came after repeated objections for international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International which had described the sentence as unjust.
• Survey: 'Situation of human rights in Kurdish regions no different from the 1990s' 

  More than 40 percent of the people in Diyarbakır do not trust the country's justice system, according to a new survey by the Diyarbakır Bar Association and the Rawest Research company.
• Siirt Bar Association visits Şenyaşar Family on vigil for justice 

  Siirt Bar Association President and members visited the Şenyaşar Family, holding a vigil for justice for family members killed by AKP people in 2018.
• Şenyaşar family: We will achieve justice together 

  The Şenyaşar family continues their Vigil for Justice and said that human rights are not implemented in Urfa.
• Family waits 5 years to get remains of son 

  The body of YPS member Serkan Dikme, who fell as a martyr during the self-government resistance in Yüksekova, was handed over to his family 5 years after his death.
• Another prisoner dies in suspicious circumstances 

  It was claimed that İlyas Demir, who was serving an aggravated life sentence in Bolu T Type Closed Prison, was found dead in the isolation cell he was held in.
• TJA activist Sümeyye Gök threatened with rape while in custody 

  TJA activist Sümeyye Gök, was subjected to naked search, psychological torture, and threatened with rape while in prison.
• Families' Justice Vigil continues amid solidarity visits 

  The Justice Vigil of the relatives of ill prisoners is on its 32nd day. The people that visited the families conveyed the message of taking responsibility for the situation.
• Violations of rights in Van and Türkoğlu prisons 

  Aydın Çubukçu is a prisoner in Van. He was not released despite being 82 percent disabled. In Türkoğlu jail, prisoners are not given hot water.
• Salih Tuğrul buried in Siirt 

  Salih Tuğrul, who suffered a stroke while in prison in the past and died on Wednesday, was buried on Thursday in his birthplace.
• Justice Vigil by relatives of prisoners in Amed reaches day 32 

  The Justice Vigil carried out by the relatives of the prisoners in Amed has reached day 32.
• HDP's Dede calls on the government to “surrender” 

  "The only appeal we would make to the government is a call to surrender,'" said Ümit Dede, Co-Chair of the HDP Law and Human Rights Commission, who visited the families at the Justice Vigil.
• Şenyaşar Family: Turkish judiciary becomes a partner in a crime against humanity 

  “Injustice is destroying Turkey. The prosecutor dealing with our case is complicit in a crime against humanity,” said the Şenyaşar family demanding justice for three family members killed in 2018.
• PKK-PAJK Prison Committees: There are deliberate murders in Turkish prisons 

  PKK-PAJK Prison Committees said that they lost three of their comrades in Turkey’s prisons in one week as “there is a deliberate attempt to murder prisoners.”
• Prisoner Güneş laid to rest 

  The funeral of seriously ill prisoner Halil Güneş who died in prison was held in Adana province.
• Lawyers not given preliminary autopsy report on ill prisoner Halil Güneş  

  The preliminary autopsy report on ill prisoner Halil Güneş was not given to his lawyers.
• Preliminary autopsy report on Abdurrazak Suyur qualifies death as 'suspicious' 

  Abdurrazak Suyur, a seriously ill prisoner in Aliağa Şakran T Type Prison No. 2, died on Tuesday. It has been learned that he was in intensive care for 10 days. His death has been recorded as suspicious in the preliminary autopsy.
• Women in Frankfurt protest inhumane practices of Turkish state against ill prisoners 

  Women in Frankfurt protested the inhumane practices of the Turkish state against ill prisoners, and demanded freedom for all political detainees.
• Political prisoners in Bafra denied access to hospital for 7 months 

  Political prisoners held in Bafra T-type Closed Prison in Samsun province, northern Turkey, have not been taken to hospital for at least 7 months.