HUMAN RIGHTS

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• UN'S Colville: Turkey has killed 7 civilians 

  The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said military operations must be conducted in accordance with international humanitarian law, in particular the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution.
• NGOs, politicians, academics called on UN to act quickly 

  International non-governmental organizations, politicians and academics called on the UN to take action against the invasion attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria warning that "the Turkish state could carry out an ethnic cleansing".
• Ill prisoner Gülcan died  

  59-year-old prisoner Kinyas Gülcan, who was in Patnos L Type Prison, lost his life after been taken to Yüzüncü Yıl University Dursun Odabaşı Hospital 6 days ago.
• 14th appeal by lawyers to meet with Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the 14th time to meet with their client.
• 1,436 people taken into custody in Ankara in 9 months, report 

  The Ankara Bar Association Human Rights Center, the Ankara Medical Chamber, the Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey prepared a report on rights violations.
• IHD: AKP uses anti-terror legislation to arrest everyone 

  Following the detention of co-chair of the IHD branch in Dersim, Gürbüz Solmaz, the Human Rights Association said: "The government is using anti-terror legislation to have each and every one arrested."
• Greece set to send 10,000 refugees back to Turkey 

  The government said that Athens wants to return 10,000 migrants to Turkey by the end of 2020.
• Petition for Kurdish singer and her daughter jailed in Turkey 

  Kurdish singer Hozan Cane has been imprisoned in Turkey for more than a year. Her daughter Gönül Dilan Örs was also jailed. A petition asks the federal government to act more decisively for the release of the two women from Cologne.
• Human Rights Association: Release ill prisoner Fesih Coşkun 

  In the "F"sit-in organised by the Human Rights Association the health situation of prisoner Fesih Coşkun, who has been held captive for 28 years, was highlighted.
• Saturday Mothers remember disappeared student 

  The Saturday Mothers in Istanbul asked about the fate of high school student Hüseyin Morsümbül, who disappeared after his arrest in Bingöl in 1980.
• Irish President defends rights of migrants 

  Speaking in New York ahead of his address to the UN General Assembly, Irish President Michael D Higgins defended the rights of migrants and their contribution to society.
• Prisoners in Bolu denounced ill treatment and torture 

  Prisoners in Bolu F-Type Prison stated that Nurullah Semo had been kept in a room for two years and tortured.
• 23 prisoners are seriously ill, said IHD 

  Human Rights Association Ankara president Nuray Çevirmen said that in Turkey there is a huge problem with prisons.
• Justice system and Human Rights in Turkey discussed at UN 

  Justice system and Human Rights in Turkey discussed at the UN Human Rights Council.
• Lawyers of Demirtaş submit defense at ECHR Grand Chamber 

  The hearing concerning HDP’s Selahattin Demirtaş has taken place at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
• Rights violations in Turkey underlined at UN Session in Geneva 

  The 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council is under way in Geneva. MRAP (Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples) and the African Agency for Integrated Development (AAID) drew attention to the situation in Turkey. 
• Kurdish political prisoner jailed since 2011 dies in prison 

  Kurdish political prisoner Mustafa Akyol, jailed in Ağrı in 2011, has lost his life in prison.
• Statement of Demirtaş’s lawyers on ECHR hearing 

  Lawyers stated that, according to the explicit provision of the law, Selahattin Demirtaş should immediately be released.
• Three-month visitation ban for families of Imralı prisoners 

  A three-month visitation ban has been introduced for the families of Imralı prisoners.
• Maxmur Camp suffers shortages in medicines due to embargo 

  The Martyr Rüstem Cudi (Maxmur) Refugee Camp Health Committee announced that the camp is suffering from lack of the medicines needed.
• Norway convicted of extradition of Kurdish activist to Turkey 

  Kurdish activist Gülizar Taşdemir was extradited to Turkey by the Norwegian authorities last year. Now, a court has ruled that the human rights of Taşdemir have been violated during this process.
• Bodies of guerrillas who fell in July still not given to families 

  Bodies of Hıdır Çallı and Taylan Kutlar, who were martyred in Dersim in July, are yet to be given to their families.
• Turkey repression and arrests to land at UN human rights session 

  "In the context of the attempted “coup d’état”, the Turkish government continues to harass and suppress the fundamental rights of the members of the press, of the lawyers, human rights defenders, NGOs, academics."
• Women prisoners in Bakirkoy jail denied medical rights 

  "We want the human rights institutions to hear our voice. - said the prisoners in their letter - We do not accept these type of violations."
• Prisoners in Patnos jail exposed to inhumane practices 

  Prisoners in Patnos L-Type Prison are protesting because there are bugs in the food, visits were banned and they are harassed.