Orhan Kemal Cengiz

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Orhan Kemal Cengiz (* 1968 ) is a Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist. Cengiz founded the Turkish section of Amnesty International . He was the representative of the secondary prosecution in the case of the murders at Zirve-Verlag . Cengiz is a founding member and was chairman of the human rights association "İnsan Hakları Gündemi Derneği". He is also a founding member and general secretary of the NGO “Sivil Toplum Geliştirme Merkezi”.

He is one of the signatories of the Özür Diliyorum campaign , where prominent intellectuals apologize for the genocide of the Armenians .

Life

Cengiz studied law at Ankara University after attending Manisa High School and graduated in 1993. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a lawyer in London .

He received death threats while serving as an attorney for the Zirve murder trial in 2008.

In 2015 he was a columnist for the Bugün newspaper . He wrote columns for Today's Zaman , Radikal and Hürriyet Daily News .

Cengiz was after the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 at the Ataturk Airport were arrested and there was four days in police custody. After his release, he gave numerous media interviews, described the unacceptable conditions of detention and reported that he had seen a person with eyes so puffy that he could not open them. The person also cried when he came from the interrogation. Cengiz said it was understandable that the Turkish government wanted to hold the coup plotters accountable, but that this should not be a license to arrest human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darbe dışı suçlar iyi izlenmedi. In: Radical. May 30, 2011, accessed July 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Yavuz Baydar: Turkey: An exception is not a condition. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 24, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kristina Karasu: Climate of Fear - this is what the state of emergency in Turkey looks like. In: forward. July 29, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  4. ^ Turkey: Provisional release of Mr. Orhan Kemal Cengiz and travel ban against him. OMCT Network, July 26, 2016, accessed July 24, 2016 .
  5. ^ Inga Rogg: Ten answers to Erdogan's wave of purges. NZZ, July 22, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Cengiz, Orhan Kemal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cengiz, Orhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer, journalist, human rights activist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1968