İnsan Hakları Derneği
| İnsan Hakları Derneği (İHD) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Human rights organization |
| Chair: | Öztürk Türkdoğan |
| Establishment date: | 1986 |
| Seat : | Ankara Turkey
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| Website: | www.ihd.org.tr |
The İnsan Hakları Derneği (İHD), in German human rights association, is an association based in Ankara that campaigns for the observance of human rights in Turkey .
The İHD has 34 branches and around 17,000 members. It is represented in three other cities.
history
The organization was founded on July 17, 1986 by 98 people. This included lawyers, journalists, intellectuals, but above all relatives of political prisoners. She is committed to upholding human rights in all areas. In 1992 the statutes of the İHD were extended to include humanitarian aspects in accordance with the Geneva Conventions . Since then, human rights violations by armed groups in the event of war have also been criticized.
Structure and campaigns
The board of directors, which has 24 members, is elected at the general assembly that takes place every two years. Both the headquarters in Ankara and the branches have set up commissions on issues such as the position of the Kurds in Turkey , the rights of women and children, deprivation of liberty after political judgments and torture , as required .
On the basis of human rights , it stands up against the death penalty , torture and militarism . The IHD represents the principles of fair trials, freedom of expression and religion, and freedom of assembly .
Some of the numerous campaigns of the association were: freedom of thought (2001), general amnesty (1999), abolition of the death penalty (1999), freedom of thought (1999), abolition of the State Security Courts (1997). In 2004 a project "Do not be silent in the face of torture" ( İşkenceye Sessiz Kalma ) was launched.
Persecution situation
Since it was founded, the İHD has had to struggle with legal interference in its work as well as direct violence from individuals or nationalistically motivated groups. In addition, the association states on its website that more than 400 proceedings have been opened against members of the association's board of directors. The governors of individual provinces closed the branches a total of 30 times. Sixty preliminary and criminal proceedings were opened against the chairman of the Diyarbakır branch , which was closed between 1997 and 2000, Osman Baydemir . In 2000, 60 proceedings were also opened against the Izmir branch. For speaking in 1995 and 1996, former chairman Akın Birdal was sentenced to 20 months in prison, of which he served 14 months.
In addition, the İHD lists 14 people who were murdered as members of the association. On May 12, 1998, Akın Birdal narrowly escaped death when two attackers fired 14 shots at him in the İHD office. On November 25, 1999, a group of 30–35 people from the party of the Nationalist Movement (MHP) attacked the office and beat up the new chairman Hüsnü Öndül . Amnesty International has taken urgent action to warn of threats to the activists in İHD, including: a. through an action for Eren Keskin , chairwoman of the Istanbul branch.
Known members
Selahattin Demirtaş , chairman of Halkların Demokratik Partisi , was chairman of the Diyarbakır branch prior to his election in 2007 as a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly .
Osman Baydemir and former MP Hatip Dicle also held this post before him .
The chairman of the Kurdistan People's Congress , Zübeyir Aydar , who was a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly with Hatip Dicle, began his career as chairman of the Siirt branch .
Muharrem Erbey , IHD Vice President and President of the Amed (Diyarbakır) branch, received the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Award in 2012 .
Nebahat Akkoc , a women's rights activist, served on the board between 1994 and 1996.
criticism
The writer and İHD co-founder Adalet Ağaoğlu resigned from the İHD in 2005 and accused the İHD of pursuing a "PKK-related, racist-nationalist policy".
Web links
- There is a deeply un-European legal culture in Turkey. Interview with Hrant Dink , published posthumously in 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Portal for civil society ( memento of the original from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Turkish, accessed August 26, 2009
- ↑ İHD web sitesi
- ↑ See article by Hüsnü Öndül , former chairman of the İHD, entitled Introduction to Humanitarian Law (Turkish); accessed on August 26, 2009
- ↑ Further information on the campaigns is available on the IHD website ; Turkish, accessed August 26, 2009
- ↑ a b Details in English and Turkish have the association's agenda for human rights in a report Defend Human Rights Defenders , from there the report can be downloaded as a Word file; accessed on August 26, 2009
- ↑ The text for this can be found under this link .
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/?id=archivseite&dig=2005/08/01/a0079
