Mazlumder
| Mazlumder | |
|---|---|
| legal form | society |
| founding | January 28, 1991 |
| founder | 54 people |
| Seat | Ankara |
| main emphasis | Human rights |
| Action space | Turkey |
| people | Yılmaz Ensaroğlu, Ayhan Bilgen, Ahmet Faruk Ünsal |
| Website | www.mazlumder.org |
The Association for Human Rights and Solidarity with the Oppressed ( Turkish İnsan Hakları ve Mazlumlar İçin Dayanışma Derneği , or Mazlumder or Mazlum Der for short ) was founded on January 28, 1991 by 54 people in Ankara . The head office is also located there. By 1997 Mazlum-Der had 13 branches and 4,000 members.
construction
The association was founded in addition to the human rights association IHD and the human rights foundation of Turkey TIHV , which at the beginning rather excluded the problems of devout Muslims. Besides the headquarters of the association in Ankara there are branches in Ağrı , Afyon , Akyazı , Ankara, Batman , Bursa , Diyarbakir , Gaziantep , Hatay , İstanbul , İzmir , Kayseri , Kocaeli , Konya , Kütahya , Malatya , Sakarya , Sivas , Şanlıurfa , Trabzon , Uşak and Van . There are five departments responsible for organization, training, media, social relations and law. Six commissions work on specific problems. The most important committee is the Commission, which deals with human rights violations in general and documents them. A commission called the “Southeast Commission” is working on the problems in the Kurdish regions.
Focus of work
The association has set itself the goal of protecting human rights in and outside Turkey. With this goal in mind, he organizes events and publishes publications such as annual statistics, etc. At the same time, he wants to help the victims of human rights violations. Reports published in Turkish include:
- Report on the Muslim-Turkish minority in Western Thrace (2012)
- Chronology of the headscarf ban 1964–2011
- Human Rights Report Afghanistan 2011
- Human Rights Report Tunisia 2011
- Bangladesh Human Rights Report 2011
Obstruction of work
There have been several trials not only against the IHD but also against Mazlumder and in 1999 branches in the Kurdish areas (in Urfa and Malatya) were temporarily closed by orders from the governors. On June 19, 1999, the headquarters and all branches nationwide were searched and important material (including in the offices of board members) was confiscated. There were also unsubstantiated suspicions of links with armed Islamist groups. For example, Özkan Hoşhanlı, the former chairman of the Malatya branch, was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment for participating in demonstrations in April and May 1999 against the headscarf ban . After the demonstrations in Malatya, the prosecutor called for the death penalty for "attempting to create public unrest with the aim of violently changing Turkey's constitutional order".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c article by Helmut Oberdiek: The human rights movement of Turkey from 1999; Accessed December 31, 2012
- ↑ Compare an interview by chairman Yılmaz Ensaroğlu with Amnesty International in the ai-journal from September 1996 Islamic human rights activists ( memento of the original from March 13, 2014 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. ; Accessed December 29, 2012
- ↑ a b Information (in Turkish) from the website of the association Who are we? ; Accessed December 31, 2012
- ↑ a b See an article İNSAN HAKLARI SAVUNUCULARI ÜZERİNDEKİ BASKILAR ARTIYOR ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated July 15, 2004; Accessed December 29, 2012
- ↑ See a report by Amnesty International from February 12, 2004 Restricting Laws, Pressure on Human Rights Defenders ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 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. (PDF); Accessed December 29, 2012
