Hüsnü Öndül
Hüsnü Öndül is a Turkish lawyer and human rights activist . He lives in Ankara with his wife and two children .
Öndül is co-founder and chairman of the Turkish human rights association İnsan Hakları Derneği (IHD), which was founded in 1986 and which has long been subject to state reprisals and violence by nationalists . After eight suspended criminal proceedings, Öndül was sentenced to one year in prison in 1998 because he and other intellectuals had appealed to the UN Human Rights Commission on the situation of the Kurds in Turkey in 1992. In 1999 he was beaten up in an attack by nationalist Gray Wolves on the IHD office.
In 1995 Öndül was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the German Association of Judges .
The MEP of the European Parliament, Feleknas Uca (Die Linke), held talks with Hüsnü Öndül and Akın Birdal in Brussels in 2000 on the situation in Turkey, freedom of expression and freedom of the press, the abolition of the death penalty, human rights and recognition the cultural rights of the Kurds and showed solidarity with their goals. In 2002 Öndül reported to the Bundestag Human Rights Committee on constitutional law and practice and legal violations in Turkey.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Mayer: Fear changes nothing , in: Die Zeit 07/1996
- ↑ İHD Genel Başkanı Hüsnü Öndül: 14. Genel Kurul Konuşması
- ↑ Katy Schröder: Turkey in the shadow of nationalism , p. 235f.
- ↑ In the spotlight: The Human Rights Prize of the German Association of Judges Mainpost, September 18, 2007. Accessed July 4, 2012
- ↑ Conversations with Akin Birdal and Hüsnü Öndül on the situation in Turkey
- ↑ Focus on the Bundestag 05/2002
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| SURNAME | Öndül, Hüsnü |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |