Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
September 1 World Peace Day: The Demand for Peace is a Demand for Human Rights and Democracy!
On the occasion of September 1 World Peace Day,[1] we would once again like to state that we want to live in a world dominated by peace. The right to peace is a human right.
On 19 August 2019, the Ministry of Interior has released a statement early in the morning saying that Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van municipality mayors from HDP [Peoples’ Democratic Party] were removed from office and they were replaced by the governors of the same cities.
The primary and sine qua non rule of democracy is to recognize the will of constituents. To respect and protect such will are the tasks of everyone in order to promote peace and democracy, to be able maintain one’s status as a citizen. IHD and HRFT, thereby, invite the political power to drop the assignment of state trustees and reinstate elected mayors, and call on all citizens to protect peace and democracy, thus, to protect their own will.