Basın Bildirisi, 9 Mart 2015, Ankara: Sınır Tanımayan Gazeteciler örgütüne göre Türkiye, 2014 Basın Özgürlüğü Endeksi’nde 180 ülke arasında 154. sıraya düştü. Türkiye’de bulunan yabancı gazeteciler, oturma izinlerinin iptaliyle, fiili sınır dışı edilmeyle ve girişlerinin yasaklanmasıyla korkutulup susturulmakta. Bu yasaklar çoğunlukla hiçbir açıklama yapılmadan konulmakta. Ülkeye girişi yasaklanan son gazeteci, Mount Ararat Trek turizm şirketinin…
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Category Archives: Human rights
Amerikalı Yazar Türkiye’ye Girişi Yasaklandı
Dr. Amy L. Beam: Amerika’da bir söz vardır: “Vereceğin ceza, suça uygun olsun”. Türkiye’de çok uzun süredir bu özdeyişin tam tersi geçerli: Önce ceza geliyor, ardından suçlama. Son yıllarda Türkiye’de gerçekleri söylemek en büyük suçlardan biri haline geldi. Ama cezalandırma her zaman gizli bir şekilde gerçekleştiriliyor: Ya “oturma izninizin süresi doldu” gibi sıradan bir nedene…
American Writer Banned from Turkey
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: In America they have a saying: “Let the punishment fit the crime.” In Turkey, for too many years, this adage has been reversed: first comes the punishment, then comes the accusation. Truth-telling has become the leading crime in Turkey, but it is always disguised, either as something mundane like “overstaying…
Regulating the Media in Kurdistan: Mission Impossible or Ignorable?
By Harem Karem & Kamal Chomani: In 1898 Miqdad Medhet Bedirxan launched the first Kurdish media outlet, a newspaper called Kurdistan. More than a century later the Kurdistan Region’s (KR) media is in chaos, lacking a clear structure, identity or mission while also being too parochial, politicised and subject to manipulation by political parties and businessmen. The…
Saudi Arabia, Fountainhead of Beheadings
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: Some thousand (1000!) Peshmergas from Bashur have meanwhile died in Northern Iraq, but how many boys of the YPG and girls of the YPJ in Rojava have been slaughtered by the Sunnites of IS who share their superior belief of beheading with the Saudis who have financed them and…
Execution of Another Kurdish Political Prisoner in Iran & Imminent Threat of More Executions in 2015
Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group Press Release: The Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group expresses its outrage at and condemns the brutal execution of Kurdish political prisoner Sabir Moklid Moane at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran on January 6, 2015 in a prison in Urmiye. According to Kurdish Human Rights activists Mr. Moane…
Kurd Journalist Kaboudvand, Jailed in Iran, Wins International Human Rights Prize
By Ava Homa (who received the award on his behalf): The International Center for Human Rights (ICHR) has awarded the 2014 Human Rights Prize to Muhammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, a Kurdish Journalist serving a ten-and-a-half year sentence in Evin Prison. Kaboudvand, an adopted member of PEN International was also named the international journalist of the year…
Iran: Not Just a Nuclear Issue, Save Kurdish Political Prisoners!
By Rebwar Rashed: The talks about Iran’s nuclear program and the negotiation between Iran and world powers have overshadowed the human rights issue. Iran’s nuclear program is just one, albeit a big one, of Iran’s many problems which include, for example: suppressing Kurdish people and others, such as the Balochi’s and Arabs; institutional and structural…
‘113 Children Tortured’ by Turkish State This Year: Universal Children’s Day Report
KT News: Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) has released a report on Universal Children’s Day, 20th November, highlighting violations of children’s right by the Turkish state and society. Here are a few quotes from translations provided by bianet and ANF Children in custody İHD stated that abuse, rape and violence cases are routine in juvenile prisons….
A Forgotten Proportion: The Child War Victims
By Hanar Marouf: Whereas children must get worried about which toy shall they buy or which book shall they read, whereas parents should be busy with offering warm and safe couches, whereas winter and raining must be greeted optimistically without worrying, the Islamic State has led to people being perturbed and concerned for every second…
Why does the killing of Baloch by ISIS affiliates make no news in the mainstream media?
By Meerain Baloch: On 28th August this year, some masked men came from nowhere on motorcycles, barged into a zikrkhana (place of worship) and opened fire indiscriminately at people who were engaged in their routine prayers. Six people were killed on the spot and scores were seriously wounded. One succumbed to his wounds before getting…
Turkey: Authoritarian Drift Threatens Rights says HRW
Press Release by Human Rights Watch: (Istanbul) – Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is taking far-reaching steps to weaken the rule of law, control the media and Internet, and clamp down on critics and protestors, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
UN, human rights and the inevitability of change towards a working policy for Iran
By Jamal Ekhtiar: Over the past three and a half decades, human rights issues in Iran have been on the agenda of the United Nations International rights system, but no progress has been made and now there must inevitably be change in the UN’s Iran rights policy. While the system claims to safeguard and protect human…
Acknowledge the PKK as Freedom Fighters and a Partner for Peace!
By Rebwar Rashed: Due to arbitrarily-drawn borders in the Middle East on at least two occasions, the first at the Sykes Picot (also calls the Asian Minor Agreement (16th of May 1916) (1), and the second in the aftermath of World War 1, Kurdistan became four parts, each part belong to a new territorial state: Iraq,…
Terror, executions, the right to life, prison conditions and extra suffering for regional Iran
By Jamal Ekhtiar: One of the serious concerns under the current system in Iran is the violation of rights to life, including arbitrary executions carried out without equitable trials. The Iranian government usually justifies executions in the name of fighting crime and drug smuggling, which is an excuse because it could use other ways to…
