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Irfan Gulsu is Halime’s brother. He lives in Canada today. Irfan calls you all to #SpeakUpForHumanRights: “Halime was an English teacher at a private school when she was detained with ‘membership to a terrorist organisation” post-coup in #Turkey… like many hundreds of thousands of others in #Turkey of a failed […]

Prominent #Turkish lawyer and #humanrights defender Eren Keskin has tirelessly promoted human rights in #Turkey over 3 decades, and has suffered rights abuses herself; she was imprisoned, she lost her license and was banned from practicing her job for one year… Witnessing the atrocities against #Turkey’s #Kurdish population over decades […]

Former HDP MP Demir Celik speaks up for #humanrightsDemir Celik, a resilient, prominent MP from pro-#Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), is only one of dozens of HDP representatives removed from the office, dismissed, arrested. He lives in exile today.Still, he refuses to be silenced!Like Celik, you too speak up! Make […]

#HumanRights abuses are happening every day in #Turkey.Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:Former Judge Yavuz Aydin was dismissed with an emergency decree after the coup attempt in #Turkey, fled to #Europe, and now lives in exile today.He encourages everyone to #SpeakUpForHumanRights.If you are a […]

Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:Stuart Russell, as a former judge and active human rights activist, defends the rights of lawyers around the world.He encourages everyone to #SpeakUpForHumanRights.If you are victim of or witness to torture, enforced disappearance, abduction in Turkey, share your story […]

Meral & Mesut Kacmaz speaks up for #humanrights |#SpeakUpForHumanRights #HumanRights abuses are happening every day in #Turkey.Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:Meral and Mesut Kacmaz couple, both educationists, abducted and extradited with their teenager daughters from Pakistan to Turkey by Turkish authorities, imprisoned for […]

Isa Antepli speaks up for #humanrights | #SpeakUpForHumanRights / #InsanHaklariAdinaSesVer #SpeakUpForHumanRights #HumanRights abuses are happening every day in #Turkey. Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:Isa Antepli, former school principal: His passport was revoked arbitrarily by Turkish authorities, faced abduction in Cambodia. But he refused to be silenced!If you are victim of or witness […]

#SpeakUpForHumanRights #HumanRights abuses are happening every day in #Turkey.Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:Meltem Oktay, #journalist reporting from Nusaybin, jailed, now lives in exile.If you are victim of or witness to torture, enforced disappearance, abduction in Turkey, share your story with us.Speak up! Make […]