HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Çevirmen: Massacres will continue if not confronted 

  Speaking at the Roboski meeting, HDP central executive committee member Nuray Çevirmen said that massacres will continue if the conflicts do not end and there is no official recognition.
• Şenyaşar family: Solidarity gives us strength to resist 

  The Şenyaşar family that protests the murder of their family members by the ruling AKP members emphasized the importance of solidarity on the 112th day of their justice vigil.
• Seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan transferred to Istanbul to get health report 

  Seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan was transferred to the Forensic Medicine Institute in Istanbul to get a report. He was previously sent to Elazığ.
• Şenyaşar family sends message of solidarity to HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu 

  The Şenyaşar family sent a message of solidarity to HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who has been imprisoned after been stripped of his parliamentary status.
• Saturday Mothers: Where is Recep Diker? 

  Recep Diker from Silvan was 29 years old when he was last seen alive one day in September 1994. His family and the Saturday Mothers initiative have been trying to clarify his fate for decades.
• Fifty years in prison for torture victims in Urfa 

  More than two years after the torture scandal of Kurdish civilians from Urfa in response to a skirmish between guerrillas and police, 14 of those involved have been sentenced to over 50 years in prison on the usual terror charges.
• 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner again classified as "fit for detention” 

  83-year-old Kurdish prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan has again been classified as "fit for detention". The man has been innocently in Turkish custody for 25 years, suffers from dementia and survived several heart attacks. Nevertheless, he is not released.
• IHD Amed Branch calls for immediate release of 83-year-old prisoner Özkan 

  IHD Amed Branch said that 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan is in serious condition and demanded his immediate release.
• Şenyaşar family continues justice vigil in Istanbul 

  The Şenyaşar family, who carries out a justice vigil for their family members who were murdered in Urfa, has been visiting Istanbul for two days to get legal support.
• Şenyaşar speaks at the Democracy Conference: “They killed my whole family” 

  Emine Şenyaşar spoke at the Democracy Conference and said that “Turkish authorities are brutal. President Erdoğan makes Halil İbrahim Yıldız a deputy. They killed my whole family. Do not leave us alone.”
• Hunger strike in prisons reaches day 210 

  The hunger strike launched in Turkish prisons against the Imrali isolation has entered its 210th day. The hunger strike launched in Maxmur has been continuing for 189 days and in Greece for 172 days.
• HRW: EU should make human rights core in agenda with Turkey 

  “European Union officials have a chance to send a clear message when they meet for an EU summit this week: the deplorable human rights situation in Turkey should have consequences for the country’s relationship with the EU, HRW said.
• Emine Şenyaşar: I will not leave here until killers are arrested 

  For 106 days, Şenyaşar family has been holding a vigil for “justice” for their relatives killed in Urfa. The family has defined their action as a struggle for the rights.
• Group of activists from Oldenburg takes over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  A group of activists from Oldenburg took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg.
• Murder in police custody: 25 years of protection of perpetrators 

  IHD Amed demands justice for Atilla Korkmaz and Mahmut Önerarı. Both men were murdered in police custody in 1996.
• Maxmur Refugee Camp is a litmus test 

  EU Turkey Civic Commission wrote to Secretary General Guterres demanding the UN to fulfil their obligations to the Maxmur Camp.
• Killer of Berkin Elvan gets a reduced sentence! 

  In the final hearing of the case regarding the death of Berkin Elvan, who was murdered during the Gezi protests, police officer Fatih Dalgalı was given a life sentence. The sentence was then reduced to 16 years and 8 months.
• Hunger strike in Lavrio enters day 147 

  The 34th group took over the hunger strike carried out by Kurdish refugees in Lavrio on the 146th day. The hunger strike is in solidarity with that carried out by political prisoners in Turkish jails.
• HRW reports arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances in Kurdistan Region of Iraq 

  In the governorate of Duhok alone Kurdish security forces arrested more than 100 people between March 2020 and April 2021. Most were later released but at least 30 remain in detention, including the five activists and journalists already sentenced.
• Two political prisoners denounce violence by guards during transfer to hearing 

  Two political prisoners brought from Elazig to Batman T Type Closed Prison to attend their hearing were subjected to the violence by the guards on the grounds that they did not stand up during the count.
• Vigil for Justice of Şenyaşar family reaches day 99 

  The Şenyaşar family continued their resistance and called for the “injustice to be challenged! If you witness any injustice, don’t remain silent".
• Iranian guards attack group of kolbars, injure two 

  The Iranian revolutionary guards attacked a group of kolbars in the Kirmaşan region of East Kurdistan. Two kolbars were injured.
• 200 days of hunger strike against isolation 

  The hunger strike of political prisoners against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and the total disenfranchisement in Turkish prisons has been going on for 200 days now. TUHAY-DER compares the situation in the prisons to a state of emergency.
• Vigil for Justice of Şenyaşar family reaches day 96 

  The Vigil Justice of Emine Şenyaşar, who lost her husband and two sons as a result of the attack on her family shop carried out by relatives and bodyguards of AKP Urfa MP Ibrahim Halil Yıldız, reaches day 96.
• Mother of seriously ill prisoner Devrim Ayık calls for his release 

  Hülya Ayık is the mother of prisoner Devrim Ayık. Her son suffers from intestinal disease. "My son has trouble in his eyes and cannot meet his daily needs alone."