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Siirt: Fatma Altun (Union of Road and Building Workers, Siirt branch); Vetha
Aydın (Chair of İHD Siirt branch); Serdar Batur (Eğitim-Sen, Siirt branch); Ferit
Epözdemir (Union of O�cials of Municipalities, Siirt branch); Halime Erdoğan;
Hediye Erdoğan; Saadet İnan; Fatın İnan; Raşit Karadaş (Health and Social Workers
Union, Siirt branch); Şahin Kayıkçı (Former chair, Eğitim-Sen, Siirt branch);
Hatice Kırçan; Sabri Özdemir (O�ce Employees Trade Union, Siirt branch); Selim
Sadak (Mayor of Siirt); Ahmet Solmaz (Media Communication and Postal Employees
Union, Siirt branch); Taybet Tekin; Kesk Siirt branch; Platform of Trade Unions
in Siirt.
Şırnak and Cizre: Volkan Bora (Journalist, Dicle News Agency); Mesut Caner (Licence
holder, Çağdaş Şırnak Haber); Nuşirvan Elçi (Lawyer, Chair of Şırnak Bar
Association); Rüya Elçi (Lawyer, member of Şırnak Bar Association Women and
Children’s Rights Commission); Mustafa Şan (Editor, Gelişen Şırnak Haber); İlknur
Tanış (Şırnak Bar Association, Şırnak Women’s Association); Cudi Yardımcı (Şırnak
Bar Association); İslam Yiğit (Editor, Lider Şırnak); Democratic Society Party and
Justice and Development Party Şırnak O�ces.
Finally KHRP gratefully acknowledges the �nancial support of:
�e Big Lottery Fund (UK), Irish Aid (Ireland), �e Sigrid Rausing Trust (UK),
�e Corner House (UK), Dutch Ministry of Foreign A�airs (Netherlands), Bishop’s
Subcommission for Misereor (Germany), Stichting Cizira Botan (Netherlands)
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Keywords: Arbitrary arrest and detention, detention, disappeared persons,
discrimination, extrajudicial executions, freedom of assembly, freedom of
association, freedom of expression, human rights, inhuman treatment, Kurds,
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Printed in Great Britain
August 2009
Published by KHRP (London)
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