IUSY is following the development in Turkey with great concern. The last years escalation of violations of human rights must come to an end.
The last months the situation has escalated even more. IUSY expresses its deep concern over the arbitrary reclusions in Turkey in the aftermath of the failed military coup d’état. We believe that the retaliation carried out by the government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, over the failed coup, has gone beyond any acceptable threshold, using threats to national security as an excuse to get rid of dissidents and political opponents. This suspension of the democratic rule of law is inadmissible and it must end immediately.
IUSY calls on the European Union and Council of Europe to strongly ask the reinstatement of those values stated in their respective founding treaties that have been violated by Turkey, an applicant state of EU and Member State of CoE. We urge the European Union to take into account the current situation in its neighbouring country while discussing the implementation of the refugee deal and the liberalization of the Turkish visa in the Union.
IUSY expresses its proximity to its two Member Organizations present in the area, CHP youth and HDP youth, whose members have been subject to arbitrary violence and persecution. HDP had to bear the arbitrary arrest of at least 60 of its members only in this month, in great part young militants. Furthermore, CHP youth recently reported the arrest of 13 comrades, half of which still incarcerated. We stand in solidarity by our friends and comrades of CHP Youth and HDP Youth in their battle for social justice and democracy, and we will use all peaceful measures in our hands to protect their basic democratic rights.
Violence against political opponents in Turkey must end now, we won’t let the deterioration of the basic human rights of the Turkish people go unnoticed.
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