The Turkey Tribunal has been set up in collaboration with International Observatory of Human Rights to establish a framework to review the current situation in Turkey and the promises made by the Turkish government to improve their dire human rights record. The Tribunal will include a series of reports, investigations and witness statements leading up to the physical tribunal which will be held later this year in Geneva.
Prof. Dr. Em. Johan Vande Lanotte
in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Luca Perilli
in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Philippe Leruth
in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Yves Haeck
Emre Turkut
in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Johan Heymans
Partly based on a report published by the Ankara Bar Association in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Eric Sottas
Johan Vande Lanotte
in collaboration with The International Observatory of Human Rights
Nurcan Baysal is a Kurdish journalist from Diyarbakir in south eastern Turkey who continues to defend human rights and stand up for her right to report in the face of persecution and arrest in Turkey. … Read more →
IOHR and the Press Emblem Campaign held a panel discussion on 27 January 2020 at the United Nations Office in Geneva to coincide with the UN’s Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of Turkey. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, President of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Annie Van Wezel, Former Co-Chair of the EESC EU-Turkey Joint Consultative Committee and Award-winning human Kurdish human rights defenders Nurcan Baysalm, discuss the unprecedented threat to human rights defenders, NGOs and trade unions in Turkey. … Read more →