We are proud to highlight the impactful work of our youth team through two recently organized panels: “Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Health, Gender, and Social Marginalization in Conflict and Poverty-Affected Contexts” and “Navigating Gendered Conflict and Displacement: Case Studies from Various Regions.” These panels reflect our commitment to fostering youth involvement in advancing social justice and advocating for human rights.”
Stand Against Torture Virtual Protest – 26 June 2022
We cordially invite you to the virtual protest on the occasion of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, 2022. Along with reflections from law professionals and human rights experts, true stories of survivors of torture will be shared in this virtual protest which will be live-streamed on YouTube.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY THE TURKISH LEGAL SYSTEM
The intent of this report is to declare the victims of the ‘New Turkey,’ especially women with children who have been under persecution since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Although the Turkish government does not promote transparent data on the number of children imprisoned with their mothers, there are 864 children in the prison according to the Justice Department Prison and Penitentiaries Management. The ages of these children vary between newborns to 6 years, as of May 24, 2019.
ERDOGAN’S LONG ARMS: ABDUCTIONS IN TURKEY AND ABROAD
The Origins of the Problem
Turkey’s struggle to draw the country more in line with the pillars of the European Union faced a long and accelerating slide. The country’s Freedom in the World score has been in free fall since 2014 due to an escalating series of assaults on the press, social media users, protesters, political parties, the judiciary, and the electoral system, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fought to impose personalized control over the state and society in a deteriorating domestic and regional security environment.
ÜLKEM, BABAM VE ÖĞRETMENLERİM
Politik savaşlardan dolayı yüzbinlerce insan hayatını kaybetmiş; milyonlarca insanın hayatları darmadağın
Bu arada bir grup eğitimci hayatın, yardımlaşmanın, insan yetiştirmenin
Bu kısa hikâye sizi belki biraz uzağınıza, belki de biraz da yakınınıza götürecek ve, “Acaba ben de insanlık için bir şeyler yapabilir miyim?” sorusunu size sorduracaktır.
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THE EROSION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN TURKEY
THE EROSION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN TURKEY
April 2020 / (40 Pages)
In Turkey, legal conflicts that arise out of the State’s intervention in the right to property are hardly a new problem.
Between 1959 and 2018, the ECtHR rendered 3128 judgments against Turkey, establishing that there had been a rights violation. Of those judgments, 660 (21%) established a breach of the right to property. Statistics on the Turkish Constitutional Court’s (TCC) judgments relating to the right to property are more alarming; 31% (2454 of 8036 judgments) of all judgments rendered within individual application procedure established a breach of the right to property.
Since 2015, the Turkish Government has been using the Criminal Peace Judgeships (CPJ) and Turkey’s notorious Anti-Terrorism provision (Art. 314, Turkish Penal Code) to take over properties belonging to dissidents.
In this report, Leighann Spencer and Ali Yildiz document the Turkish Government’s intervention into the right to property, analyze its legality under international and national law, and conclude with recommendations.… Read More
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Human Rights Violations Report, Comprehensive infographics about Turkey
August 2019 / (28 pages)
Our infographics work began on August 24, 2018. In the past year, we gathered information from comprehensive reports of human rights associations, data from several statistical institutes, and also news from many known newspapers, most notably:
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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The United States Department of State
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Freedom House
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Amnesty International
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The American Bar Association
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Reuters
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The Committee to Protect Journalists
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Turkey Statistical Institute (TUIK)
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Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Global Wealth Migration Review
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Scholars at Risk
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European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
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CBC (WHO IS THIS? WRITE IT OUT)
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WP (WHO IS THIS? WRITE IT OUT)
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POLITICO
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COMMA Network
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The Arrested Lawyers Initiative
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Lawyer Rights Watch
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World Prison Brief
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Turkey Purge
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Journalists and Writers Foundation
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Prison Studies
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Prison Insider
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Ahval News
AST created 22 pages of infographics by summarizing a total of 854 pages of information including reports, statistical databases, and news published by these organizations.
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PRESS RELEASE ON THE OCCASION OF THE WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2019
WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2019
It is acknowledged in UNHCR’s Global Trends 2018 Report that the number of forcibly displaced people increased by 2.3 million people in 2018. By the end of the year, almost 70.8 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, states:
“What we are seeing in these figures is further confirmation of a longer-term rising trend in the number of people needing safety from war, conflict, and persecution.”
Since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the Turkish government has targeted individuals and groups opposing the government. Through a mass witch-hunt, hundreds of thousands of people have been faced with arrest, imprisonment, torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, denial of fair treatment, labeling, confiscation, and passport seizure. Turkish prisons became filled with people who were detained and awaiting trial and began to operate over capacity. 28 individuals disappeared, some kidnapped in broad daylight in front of their families. Reports of torture, mistreatment, and abuse skyrocketed from tens in 2017 to more than 2,500 in 2018. 51 people lost their lives under suspicious circumstances in official custody. Consequently, thousands of people were forced to leave the country for freedom and to live in humane conditions.
Migration is not easy for those who migrate as well as those countries who receive them. The activist poet Warshan Shire’s words about forced displacement summarize the refugee issue very concisely: “No one puts their children in a boat unless the boat is safer than the land.”
We, as AST (Advocates of Silenced Turkey), are dedicated to support refugees as well as to defend their rights and be a voice for them.
Hafza Y. GIRDAP
Spokesperson
[email protected]
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