On Saturday, Turkish Government cut the flow from a reservoir that supplies water to areas in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province that the Kurdish-led local authorities control. The Alouk Water Station is located near the border town of Serekaniye, which Turkey and its militant proxies took control of in October 2019 during Turkey’s so called “Peace Spring Operation”.
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The Freedom for Sick Prisoners Initiative could not make their weekly action outside because of the coronavirus emergency and held press conferences in Ankara and Istanbul instead.
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Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Justice has been working on “A New Human Rights Action Plan” since 2018. The action plan was announced to the public by the Turkish Presidency within the scope of its second 100-day action plan. It was indicated that a new initiative was underway based on the “Action Plan for the Prevention of Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights” which was actually published in the Official Gazette of 1 March 2014. İHD should, however, underline that the action plan of 2014 was not enforced.
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The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) denounces that 71 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Turkey had also agreed, the most fundamental human rights are still violated by Turkey on a daily basis.
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The Association for Assistance to Prisoners’ Families (TUAY-DER) held a press conference at the association building on rights violations in prisons.
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