Turkey topped the list of countries whose sons are subjected to repressive violations in 2020 at the hands of the ruling Justice and Development authorities in Turkey headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the rate of human rights violations increasing in one year by 20% days before the new year.
During the year 2020, the phrase “Erdogan has thrown the rights of his citizens in the trash” was frequently mentioned on the pages of the local and international media regarding human rights violations in Turkey, after the Justice and Development government recorded about 40 violations of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the protection of freedom of thought. And the expression, in addition to the fact that Ankara ranked second in violation of various provisions of Article VI related to the right to a fair trial by 53 international convictions.
According to a monitoring report published by the “Turkey Now” website, the harvest of human rights issues under the rule of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the course of a whole year was as follows:
First: With regard to suppressing the opposition movement Abdullah Gulen
292,000 Turkish citizens were issued arrest warrants against them, accused of belonging to the service movement led by the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, which Ankara classifies as a terrorist organization and is responsible for the failed coup in July 2016.
69 thousand Turkish citizens were arrested by the Turkish police forces on charges of belonging to the “Gulen” group.
25,655 Turkish citizens were sentenced to hard labor on charges related to terrorism on the grounds of their belonging to the group.
102,000 security operations organized by the Ministry of Interior against the group’s members, 76 of them were large and 307 medium operations, while the forces organized 99,000 operations in rural villages and 2,900 operations in major cities.
809 citizens were liquidated under the pretext of “liquidating terrorism” in Turkish police security operations against the service movement.
67 thousand security operations were carried out in state institutions and private institutions. The homes of workers in these institutions were raided, and investigations were conducted with every person who had a relationship with those arrested on charges of involvement in terrorist operations.
Second: With regard to the suppression of the activities of the opposition Kurdistan Workers Party:
115 thousand arrests were carried out by the Turkish Ministry of Interior against Turkish citizens for their alleged affiliation with the Kurdistan Workers Party, which Ankara classifies as a terrorist organization during 2020.
1,105 civilians were killed during operations organized by the Ministries of Defense and Interior against the party, of whom only 102 were found to be affiliated with the party and were involved in terrorist crimes, while the rest were killed immediately after criminal suspicions were issued against them.
Third: “Insulting the President” … an accusation that the Turks incurred fines and years in prison
According to Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code, prison terms are from one to four years for insulting the president. During the year 2020, the number of citizens who incurred fines or were imprisoned on this charge was as follows:
More than 36,000 citizens have been subjected to investigations for insulting the president.
3831 citizens were sentenced to prison terms during the year 2020 for insulting the Turkish President.
Three thousand citizens were forced to pay huge sums of money after being accused of insulting the president.
It is noteworthy that 5,233 Turkish citizens were tried on the same charge in 2018, and this number increased in 2019 to 12,298 people.
Fourth: “Arbitrary dismissal” … Erdogan’s weapon to purge state institutions of opponents
151 elected deputies were arbitrarily dismissed from their positions under the chairmanship of the municipalities of the opposition parties, for their alleged affiliation with terrorist organizations.
73 elected opposition mayors have been arrested and sentenced to a total of 694 years, 998 months and 338 days in prison, while judicial proceedings continue for others.
42 thousand citizens were dismissed from their jobs for allegedly supporting the Gulen movement.
14,000 citizens have been suspended from work on charges related to communicating with members of the Gulen movement.
Fifth: Torture in Erdogan’s prisons
Detainees in Turkish prisons are subjected to various types of human rights violations, including torture, ill-treatment, deliberate neglect of health procedures, and other dehumanizing legal violations, and the number of victims of Turkish prisons as a result of health neglect increased to 88 during the year 2020, among whom 20 were infected with the Coronavirus. . In addition to 4 cases, they died due to other diseases in Agri Patnos prison.
Turkish prisons recorded 1289 cases of torture and ill-treatment of detainees during 2020, and 728 people who were arrested in one day (February 18) were subjected to severe violations and severe torture by the Ankara police before their release.
Turkey has also recorded 483 cases of violation of the rights of detainees, as part of ill-treatment by police officers, 78 of which fall under the category of incidents of torture.
In terms of violations of the rights of opinion and expression, local and international human rights organizations monitored 1040 cases of violations against freedom of expression, whether arrests, suspensions, threats or fines. 502 of them are among the violations of the rights of “freedom of thought and expression.”
The violations included the arrest of one journalist, the arrest of 8 journalists, imprisonment and fines for 15 others, in addition to the suspension of 4 journalists from work, the opening of judicial investigations with 5 and the assault on a journalist, during the year 2020.
Violations of women’s rights in Turkey were evident during the year 2020, with a crime rate every 15 hours. Women in Turkey suffer persecution and violence under Erdogan’s rule, from the suffering of domestic violence by husbands, through harassment and rape, to the widespread campaigns of arrests that included large numbers of female protesters. As well as targeting activists and feminist organizations.
The Turkish regime headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan concluded the year 2020 with a resounding scandal, after Turkish girls and women broke their silence, and revealed the torture and forced nakedness they were subjected to in Turkish departments and prisons in front of officers and prison guards.
A group of former prisoners published shocking video testimonies on social media, in which they confirmed that they were subjected to humiliating methods of inspection during their detention, and they drew harsh criticism of the ruling party led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which sparked a widespread outcry that spread outside Turkey.
The rate of victims of violence against women in Turkey witnessed an unprecedented increase during 2020, by 33% from the previous year, and during the year 2020 about 560 women submitted complaints to the government, and 21% of them were violated by public officials who submitted complaints to them. The following is the digital statement of the violations that Turkish women have been subjected to under Erdogan’s rule during the year 2020 and the ruling Justice and Development Party government lax in taking deterrent measures to stop violence against women in Turkey:
482 women were killed by men.
97 women were harassed.
53 women were raped.
At least 607 women were forced into prostitution.
493 women were subjected to violence by men during the year.
715 women were subjected to violence and oppression without protection from the authorities.
26% of the victims who applied for protection had experienced violence from their husbands.
86% of the dead women were shot dead in their home.
18 members of women’s rights groups submitted collective resignations due to violations by their colleagues in Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), whether physical violations or human rights violations.
Turkish women were also subjected to numerous persecutions in the field of work during the year due to male domination of the judiciary, as there are 20 thousand and 629 judges and prosecutors in Turkey, women constitute only 35.9% of them, while men constitute 64.1%.
By the end of 2020, the number of women detained in Turkey’s prisons increased to 18,000 women. The arrests that occurred on the period from 2016 to December 2020 included all categories of women, from housewives to journalists, teachers, academics, doctors, professionals and businesswomen, claiming they had links with terrorist groups without any support. legal.
According to documented human rights reports .. The year 2020 witnessed the arrest of 44 Turkish women, including the honorary president of the municipality of Silvan Nashida Toprak, journalist Ash’i Kara, and women leaders from the Women’s Rights Organization, as part of the investigations conducted by Turkey to arrest members of the Kurdish Democratic Society Conference. Torturing, beating and punching them several times in their faces and separate parts of their bodies.
Five female figures in the Turkish opposition have been threatened with rape and kidnapping at gunpoint because of their anti-Erdogan political views, and they are: Turkish actress Perna Lashin, journalist Nevshin Mango, CHP President of Istanbul Province, Jinan Qaftancioglu, and lawyer Fayza Altun.
It is worth noting that the Turkish judiciary refused to jerk into the calls that were made against the extremist criminals Erdogan’s supporters who threatened to rape them, and the Turkish Public Prosecution considered these threats nothing more than criticism, and decided to stop pursuing investigations.
Human rights organizations and women’s movements in Turkey have attacked the ruling Justice and Development Party’s proposal to amend the Amnesty Law, which provides amnesty for perpetrators of rape on the condition that they marry the victims, which was included in the new judicial package announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 16, 2020.
The social opposition led by women’s organizations succeeded in pressuring the ruling authority to backtrack on the bill, but that was sufficient for Erdogan’s regime to take revenge on the leaders and female figures opposed to it throughout the year 2020.
The year 2020 witnessed widespread violations of children’s rights in Turkey, as thousands of Turkish children fell under the guillotine of violations, including sexual assaults, rape, and violent crimes, either by the family or by labor officials who violate the United Nations Charter on child labor, and other than that. Violations, children of Turkey face a guillotine of arrests, and face penalties with imprisonment .. This was at the level of digital monitoring of impartial human rights organizations as follows:
800 children between the ages of one and six are languishing in the prisons of the Turkish regime, according to the Prison Children Network of the Civil Society Association.
308 children face court rulings for allegedly insulting the Turkish president, a number announced from the end of 2019 until the end of 2020, as these children face various types of human rights violations and ill-treatment in prisons.
3 children died in the context of extrajudicial execution, during random shooting, while one of the children died due to landmines, bombs and explosives. The perpetrators were not identified.
From 2016 to the end of 2020, Turkish courts recorded a 50% increase in child rape cases in Turkey over the past five years.
Statistics issued by the Child Rights Center revealed that the number of victims of child sexual exploitation in Turkey increased, during the first three months of the year 2020, to 689 children, of whom 483 were raped, 83 of them under the age of 12, which is a large percentage compared to the number of children abused. During the last year, which reached 154 cases, 72 of them were children under 15 years of age.
During the year 2020, the number of cases of victims of violent crimes against children increased during the year 2020 to 968 children, including 568 cases of domestic violence, 233 of whom were under the age of 12 years.
According to data from the Turkish Statistics Institute, the number of working children has reached 2 million, and 8 out of 10 children work in unsafe conditions.
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