human rights

Nuriye Gülmen, a leftist academician from the Comparative Literature Department of Eskişehir Ozmangazi University is protesting against her dismissal during the purges that followed the coup attempt in July. 

The issue of labour safety made a return to the headlines in Turkey with a mine “accident” on the night of November 17th. In an open copper mine in the war depressed south-eastern region of the country, 16 workers - truck drivers and operators of earthmovers – were buried by a landslide. 

The students, the parents, the graduate associations of these long-established schools criticize this policy of project schools to the making of which they didn’t participate in any way, and fear that the government sees these schools as the new fronts in expanding its Islamist hegemony.

The Mothers and activists have come together for the 600th time on September 24, 2016 with the following demands: unclose the fate of the disappeared; put the perpetrators on trial; never let anyone be disappeared again.

Since 2009 the foundation has been annually awarding the International Hrant Dink Prize, the most prestigious human rights award in Turkey. 

In work accidents, Turkey is placed near the top both in Europe and the world.

Academics for Peace have made a call to “everybody who sides with peace and free thought” to join them on the 20th when they will gather in front of the YÖK building in Ankara to speak out –again- against policies of war, both in Turkey and the world, defend the right to life, and be in solidarity with their colleagues who are being exposed to pressures because they have stood for those principles.

The provision which allows the police to conduct strip searches and wiretapping without a judge’s permission is an instrument which will bolster plans to intern public “enemies” on a large scale. The legal system gives place to detention camps, and citizens turn into “enemies”.

Street children are individuals who have refused to passively succumb to domestic abuse, have either opted to abandon home with immense courage or were forced to do so by their parents, and are now struggling to survive in the face of very tough conditions on the street.

The juvenile justice system must be a part of a child-friendly justice and a holistic child protection system of a country as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Avoiding the deprivation of liberty, fast and fair judicial procedures, rehabilitation and restorative justice are some of the objectives in this system.