>From: Margarita Lacabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" [mideast] TUR 001 / 9708 / OBS 006.03 (fwd)
>
>URGENT APPEAL - OBSERVATORY
>
> New Information
>
> TUR 001 / 9708 / OBS 006.03
> Closure of HRA branch
> TURKEY
> 25th August 2000
>
>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders,
>an FIDH and OMCT venture, requests your URGENT
>intervention in the following situation in Turkey:
>
>New Information
>
>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
>has received information from the Human Rights Association
>(HRA), that the Diyarbakyr branch of the HRA was closed
>down a few minutes after its re-opening on 12 August 2000.
>
>The executive members of the HRA were presented with an
>official notification stating that the Diyarbakyr branch of the
>HRA was to closed down for another 3 months under article
>11/0 of the State of Emergency Rule by the official approval of
>Diyarbakyr governorship, dated 11 August 2000.
>
>The Observatory believes that this is another deliberate attempt
>to prevent the Diyarbakir branch of the HRA from carrying out
>its activities of monitoring human rights violations, particularly in
>Diyarbakir and also in the region, informing public opinion on
>human rights violations and helping people who faced human
>rights violations to use national and international mechanisms for
>the protection of their rights.
>
>Brief reminder of the situation
>
>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
>has received information from the Human Rights Association
>(HRA), member of the FIDH, that on 12th May 2000, the
>Diyarbakir branch of the HRA was closed for three months by
>the decision of the Diyarbakir Governor�s Office. The State of
>Emergency Governor�s Office decided to close the branch
>based on �Article 11/o� of the State Emergency Rule.
>
>This closure comes 23 days after the re-opening of the
>Diyarbakir branch which had previously been closed since 23rd
>May 1997. After a legal struggle of three years, the Court of
>First Instance Nr. 3 lifted the closure decision on 31st march
>2000. The judicial decision was delayed for 20 days and the
>branch was finally opened on 19th April 2000.
>
>Previously, the Diyarbakir and other branches of the Human
>Rights Association in Turkey had been subjected to systematic
>threats in 1997 leading to the closure, by Governors of the
>region, of some branches. (See also 1997 annual report page
>198)
>
>The reasons invoked by the authorities for closing these offices
>were unvarying : the possession of illegal publications, which in
>reality are human rights reports and publications in favour of a
>peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. These closures - of a
>fixed duration - were for the most part been followed by
>detention of local human rights defenders, including the head of
>the local branch.
>
>Action requested :
>
>Please write to the Turkish authorities urging them to:
>
>i. order the immediate re-opening of the Diyarbakir branch of
>the Human Rights Association;
>
>ii. adopt all necessary measures in order to ensure full freedom
>of action of the Human Rights Association and all other human
>rights organisations as well as their members;
>
>iii. abide by the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights
>Defenders adopted by the General Assembly of the United
>Nations on December 9th 1998 ("Declaration on the Rights and
>Responsibility of individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to
>Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and
>Fundamental Freedoms ") and more particularly Article 6 which
>states that � everyone has the right, individually and in
>association with others�to publish, impart or disseminate to
>others views, information and knowledge on all human rights and
>fundamental freedoms. �
>
>iv. more generally to abide by the provisions of the Universal
>Declaration of Human Rights and the regional and international
>covenants ratified by Turkey.
>
>Addresses
>
>M. Bulent Ecevit, Premier Ministre. Fax: 90 312 417 04 76 /
>90 312 231 52 01
>
>Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Pr�sident de la R�publique, Fax: 00 90
>312 468 50 12 / 90 312 467 40 28
>
>M. Sadettin Tantan, Interior Minister, Tel/Fax: +90 312 425 72
>15
>
>M. Gokhan Aydemir, State Emergency Region Governor�s
>Office, Tel/Fax: +90 412 228 63 01/224 35 72
>
>M. Cemil Serhadli, Governor of Diyarbakir
>
>M. Hikmet Fani Turk, Ministre de la Justice. Fax: 90 312 417
>39 54
>
>Geneva - Paris, 25th August 2000
>
>Kindly inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code
>number of this appeal in your reply.
>
>The Observatory, a joint FIDH and OMCT venture, is
>dedicated to the protection of Human Rights Defenders and
>aims to offer them concrete support in their time of need.
>To contact the Observatory, call the Emergency line
>
>Fax : 33 (0) 1 55 80 83 92 Tel FIDH 33 (0) 1 43 55 20 11
> OMCT + 41 22 809 49 39
>E.Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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