Keep the Volume Up for Rights Defenders in Turkey
A new website is online today, https://www.sessizkalma.org/en/ which focuses on the intimidation and persecution faced by human rights defenders in Turkey as well as the national and international support and struggle for their protection.
Human rights defenders from different corners of society – lawyers, teachers, journalists, scientists, union activists – face serious pressures in doing their work in Turkey. Their aim is to protect fellow citizens from unjust and inhumane policies; they speak up and act when people’s human rights are being infringed upon.
Yet in Turkey rights defenders are increasingly being intimidated, detained and imprisoned.
Their struggle deserves more visibility and national and international solidarity. As three organisations (Association Monitoring Equal Rights, Netherlands Helsinki Committee and Truth Justice Memory Center) working on human rights, both in Turkey and abroad, we felt called to join forces. With this initiative we want to ‘keep the volume up’ and make sure human rights defenders under threat can continue their important work.
