{"id":4535,"date":"2019-09-27T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:08:34","slug":"keep-the-volume-up-for-rights-defenders-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/2019\/09\/27\/keep-the-volume-up-for-rights-defenders-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Volume Up for Rights Defenders in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> A new website is online today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sessizkalma.org\/en\/\">https:\/\/www.sessizkalma.org\/en\/<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human rights defenders from different corners of society \u2013 lawyers, teachers, journalists, scientists, union activists \u2013 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&nbsp;&nbsp;when people\u2019s human rights are being infringed upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet in Turkey rights defenders are increasingly being intimidated, detained and imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their struggle deserves more visibility and national and international solidarity. As three organisations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Association Monitoring Equal Rights<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netherlands Helsinki Committee<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hakikatadalethafiza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Justice Memory Center<\/a>) working on human rights, both in Turkey and abroad, we felt called to join forces. With this initiative we want to \u2018keep the volume up\u2019 and make sure human rights defenders under threat can continue their important work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 lawyers, teachers, journalists, scientists, union activists \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esithaklar.org\/eski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}