HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Report: There are 3,000 children in Turkish prisons 

  Children Rights Violation Report has been issued to mark World Children's Rights Day. The report said that 3,000 children are in prison in Turkey, 743 with their mothers. 
• Prisoners in Osmaniye on hunger strike since 12 November 

  Prisoners in Osmaniye No. 2 T-Type Closed Prison have been on hunger strike for 8 days.
• HDK to host symposium on Migration, Refugees and Discrimination 

  The Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) will organise a Symposium on Migration, Refugees and Discrimination in Şişli, Istanbul.
• 227 civilians killed in occupied Afrin, including 32 children 

  At least 227 civilians have been killed and 638 others wounded in Turkish occupied Afrin during the past 1,5 years.
• IHD reported 14,000 human rights violations in Izmir 

  The Human Rights Association (IHD) has revealed that between March and August 2019, there were at least 14,000 violations of rights in the Aegean region and surrounding cities.
• AI:Turkey arrests hundreds critics of military offensive in Syria 

  “The Turkish authorities must stop gagging opinions they don’t like and end the ongoing crackdown. All charges and prosecutions of those targeted for peaceful expression of their opposition to Turkey’s military operations should be immediately dropped.”
• Council of Europe: Camps in Greece ready to "explode" 

  Dunja Mijatović said the situation is "explosive" and highlighted the unhygienic conditions in which migrants are kept, in overcrowded camps.
• Disciplinary penalties for 57 prisoners protesting for Rojava 

  57 political prisoners detained in İzmir’s Şakran high-security prison were placed in solitary confinement because they protested against the Turkish invasion of northern Syria.
• Mustafa Koçak: 47 kilos and fasting for 90 days demanding justice 

  Political prisoner Mustafa Koçak has been on hunger strike for 90 days demanding a fair trial. On the 30th day of action he went on deathfast . His mother Zeynep Koçak said, "My son now is 37 kilos."
• Ex-U.N. investigator: Erdogan should be charged with war crimes 

  “An investigation should be opened into him and he should be charged with war crimes. He should not be allowed to get away with this scot free,” said a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
• UN: Conflict must be stopped to prevent humanitarian crisis 

  Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ursula Mueller, told the Security Council that since the beginning of military operations by Turkey in north-east Syria, “civilian’ casualties and damage to civilian infrastracture have been reported.
• Turkey’s war crimes to be submitted to concerned authorities 

  The self-administration of northern and eastern Syria said they hold the Turkish regime and its President Erdogan for the war crimes committed by his mercenaries against civilians.
• Demo against Turkish war crimes in front of OPCW 

  There is strong evidence that Turkey used chemical bombs in its incursion into northern Syria.
• UN: Nearly 180,000 people displaced in northeast Syria 

  “Nearly two weeks after the start of the hostilities, over 176,000 people have been displaced, including nearly 80,000 children, and critical civilian infrastructure has been damaged.”
• Kati Piri: Turkey must be held responsible for war crimes 

  Reactions are growing against the Turkish invasion of northern Syria and the war crimes committed in the region.
• Police attacked Saturday Mothers in Istanbul 

  Turkish police attacked Saturday Mothers in Istanbul.
• Heyva Sor confirmed 14 civilians dead and 46 wounded 

  Heyva Sor a Kurd disclosed the names of those killed and wounded in the Jazira region during the attack by the occupying Turkish state in Northern and Eastern Syria.
• 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.