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Turkey: Human rights defender Filiz Kalayci released

On 12th May 2009, four lawyers, Mr. Hasan Anlar (IHD Deputy Secretary General), Ms. Filiz Kalayci (IHD Executive Board Member), Mr. Halil İbrahim Vargün (IHD Former Treasurer), Mr. Murat Vargün (Member of the IHD) and Mr. Nedim Tas were detained and their offices and houses were searched by the anti-terror police.
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Turkey: Support petition to the imprisoned elected Kurdish politicians and human rights activists !

http://www.gopetition.com/online/33068.html ...
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Turkey: Stop the coercion on IHD's Diyarbakir Province Branch

System, and by the way the political power, added new coercions on the opposition....
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Turkey: Research Report concerning the events in Bulanik District of Mus Province

Research and investigation report regarding the events that led to the killing of two people and the injury of seven...
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Peace activist Ms. Yuksel Mutlu and trade union members were released

Ms. Yuksel Mutlu, who is the spokesperson of the Turkey Peace Assembly and a member of the Honorary Board of the Human Rights Association (IHD), and 21 administrators and members of the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK), were released on Saturday, 21 November 2009. They had been in prison since 1 June 2009....
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Turkey should not permit Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to participate in the meeting of the Islamic conference

Through the media we have learned that Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir, against whom the International Criminal Court (the Court) has issued an arrest warrant, is planning to participate in the meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Istanbul on 9 November 2009....
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Turkey: We condemn the attack on Suleyman Celebi

IHD Communique...
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Turkey is going away from the principle of the rule of law rather than getting closer to it

The Criminal General Council of the Supreme Court (Yargıtay Ceza Genel Kurulu) has decided there is no need to sentence the security member (a specialist sergeant) that fired into the crowd and consequently caused death of a civilian. According to the Criminal General Council of the Supreme Court, the action of the security member was justifiable within the scope of the law....
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