Paris-Geneva-Ankara, March 30, 2022 – In the early hours of March 16, 2022, police raided the homes of 24 women's rights defenders and activists in (.)
JOINT STATEMENT - THE OBSERVATORY / HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION / HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION OF TURKEY Paris-Geneva-Ankara, March 30, 2022 – In the early hours…
Yalçın was convicted of "aiding an illegal organization" and "propagandizing for a terrorist organization." She was indicted as part of an investigation into the Rosa Women's Association.
THREE more women were jailed today a week after more than 20 were detained in mass arrests targeting women’s organisations in Turkey’s largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activist Zelal Bilgin and Diyarbakir metropolitan municipality councillors Bahar Karakas Ulug and Rabia Tekas were jailed on charges of “membership of an illegal organisation.”
They were sent to Diyarbakir women’s closed prison, bringing the number jailed during the operation to 11.
Twenty-six women were detained during police raids on their homes last week. Arrest warrants have been issued for a total of 33 people, all of them high-profile women, including Jin News journalist Beritan Canozer, who was released on a control order last week.
KURDISH journalist Beritan Canozer has hit out after saying she was “unlawfully detained” for four days in Turkey last week after covering a demonstration held last November opposing violence against women.
She spoke to the Morning Star after she was released on a judicial control order last Friday, after she was accused of being a member of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Ms Canozer was detained in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir along with 21 other women, including those from the Rosa Women’s Association, which was also targeted by security services last year.
She was charged for covering a press statement made by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Pervin Buldan for Jin TV on November 25, which is International Day Against Violence Against Women.