İHD 2019 Turkey Human Rights Violations Report

The report also stated that "Turkey's last five years have been a period in which the regime has become increasingly authoritarian and the official ideology has been tried to be fully implemented".

In the 23-page report with the subtitle “The Resistance of Social Opposition to Persistence in Authoritarian Administration”, violations are listed under the following headings:

The permanent state of emergency regime, right to life, torture, and ill-treatment, prisons, Kurdish problem, right to personal freedom and freedom of expression, freedom of association and pressure on human rights organizations and defenders, freedom of assembly and demonstration, violations of the right to vote and be elected, the problem of violence against women, refugees/asylum seekers/immigrants, economic and social rights.

The report, which ended with the sentence "The 2019 report of violations of rights shows that the struggle for human rights and democracy will continue increasing," included the following evaluations in the introductory part of the report:

“The state of emergency regime, which started on July 21, 2016, was ended on July 19, 2018. However, with the law numbered 7145, which entered into force on July 31, 2018, the state of emergency was extended for almost 3 years. Therefore, 2019 was also a year in which the state of emergency was maintained.
“Despite the insolvency of the Kurdish question and the continuation of armed conflicts, the policy of dismissing the co-mayors of Diyarbakır, Van and Mardin, one of the metropolitan cities where Kurds live, and appointing trustees by assigning governors, on 19 August 2019, after the local elections, is the most prominent manifestation of the authoritarian regime, which resulted in the nullification of the will of the voters and thus the elections was a feature.
“The policy of appointing trustees was continued throughout 2019 and 2020, including municipalities from CHP as well as HDP members.
“The attitude of the ECtHR in the face of the magnitude of democracy and human rights problems in Turkey was exemplary. Even the necessities of the violation decisions, which were limited to the Demirtaş and Kavala cases, could not be done.
“The ECtHR, which has moved away from the rule of law, constantly pointed to the Constitutional Court in Turkey so that it would not be prosecuted, and this demonstrated the erosion experienced in the protection of human rights values.”