content tagged with forced disappearances

Forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions in Turkey discussed at UNHRC event

Forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions in Turkey discussed at UNHRC event

Human rights advocates highlighted legal harassment against human rights activists and the prevailing impunity concerning forced disappearances.

20 September 2023

All defendants acquitted in Dargeçit extrajudicial killings case

DARGEÇİT JİTEM CASE

All defendants acquitted in Dargeçit extrajudicial killings case

Another case about the extrajudicial killings purportedly committed by the JİTEM has ended in acquittal.

Application to ECtHR for mass grave, "Right to mourn" violated

Application to ECtHR for mass grave, "Right to mourn" violated

Turan Ece, the lawyer of Cevdet Tatar, whose brother was left in the mass grave in Çatak has petitioned the ECtHR that the family's right to mourn was violated and that a "crime against humanity" was committed.

20 June 2022 Ayça Söylemez

'The state can do anything': Retired intelligence chief admits torture, extrajudicial killings

'The state can do anything': Retired intelligence chief admits torture, extrajudicial killings

Eymür says he doesn't regret what he did, and it's "legitimate" for the state to commit such practices. He criticizes those who did these for "personal interests" though.

8 November 2021

CHP MP Releases Report of '40 Years of Forced Disappearances in Turkey'

INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF THE DISAPPEARED

CHP MP Releases Report of '40 Years of Forced Disappearances in Turkey'

After the 2016 coup attempt, the cases of forced disappearances have increased again, MP Tanrıkulu has said.

‘Allegations of Abduction/Disappearance Left Unanswered’

‘Allegations of Abduction/Disappearance Left Unanswered’

İşçi and Arcan from Human Rights Association have spoken to bianet about the families who appealed to them, alleging that their relatives were kidnapped: “We have either received no answer or a single sentence of ‘Examination has been conducted’.”

5 March 2019 Ayça Söylemez

“122 People Disappeared Under Military Chief Güreş”

“122 People Disappeared Under Military Chief Güreş”

Memory Center, an NGO focusing on Turkey’s disappeared people, released a report explaining the disappearance cases during the term of Doğan Güreş, Turkey’s military chief during 1990 and 1994. He died yesterday.

15 October 2014

Ex-Admiral Spoke, Families of the Missing Sued Officials of the 90s

Ex-Admiral Spoke, Families of the Missing Sued Officials of the 90s

Following the statement of retired Vice-Admiral Kiyat, who said, “Unsolved murders were a state policy,” a number of rights organisations have filed a criminal complaint about over 20 state officials of the time, among whom are Demirel, Ciller, Erbakan, Agar, Gures and Karadayi.

7 August 2010 Berivan Tapan

Families of the Missing Want Confessions to Continue

Families of the Missing Want Confessions to Continue

The families of the missing, who place importance on the words of Retired Vice-Admiral Kiyat, who said; “unsolved murders in the 1990s were a state policy.” They are calling on the state, which “rendered missing” their relatives, to give an account. Deniz, Tanis, Ocak and Kirbayir families are expecting the confessions of those “really responsible.”

6 August 2010 Berivan Tapan