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Report on curfews in Kurdish-majority provinces

MIGRATION MONITORING ASSOCIATION

Report on curfews in Kurdish-majority provinces

The government started the widespread implementation of curfews in predominantly Kurdish-populated regions during the 2015 conflict.

Study: In Kurdish Provinces, People Speak in Kurdish at Home, Turkish at State Agencies

Study: In Kurdish Provinces, People Speak in Kurdish at Home, Turkish at State Agencies

While almost 70 percent of the participants said they speak in Kurdish at home, official agencies are the places where speaking in Kurdish is least common, according to the study.

10 February 2020 Evrim Kepenek

What did Woman Experience During Period of Curfews?

REPORT FROM MIGRATION MONITORING ASSOCIATION

What did Woman Experience During Period of Curfews?

In the report, interviews with 480 women who experienced the conflict and curfews in southeastern provinces in 2015 and 2016 shed light on the violations women were subjected to.

20 February 2019 Evrim Kepenek

Rights Advocate Doctor Necdet İpekyüz Detained

Rights Advocate Doctor Necdet İpekyüz Detained

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Executive Board member and former President of Diyarbakır Chamber of Medicine Dr. Necdet İpekyüz was taken into custody together along with other seven people this morning in Diyarbakır.

178 Deaths Mark the First Half of 2012 in the East

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

178 Deaths Mark the First Half of 2012 in the East

Some 15,109 rights violations took place in eastern Turkey during the first half of 2012, according to a report by the Human Rights Association (IHD.) A total of 56 security personnel and 122 militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) also lost their lives during the same period.