The Democratic Turkey Forum

Urgent call for donations

In 2011 and 2012 the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey will be missing money for the treatment of torture survivors and documentation of human rights violations in Turkey. Therefore, the Democratic Turkey Forum calls for donations that are transferred without deductions. For people living in Germany the donations are exempted from tax. Read more

On this site maintained with MediaWiki you find some kind of backup system for the daily bulletins that the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) publishes on human rights abuses in Turkey. The German support group of the HRFT, the Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF) created this duplication in case that the site of the HRFT crashes or is not accessible.

Our mailing list

At the beginning of 2010 the Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF) changed its mailing list. If you want to subscribe to the daily reports of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) in monthly files in English just go to the main page of the mailing-list DTF-Wochenberichte and provide a valid e-mail address. You may have to change the language on the right side by choosing the language and activating "view page in". There are no charges and you can cancel your subscription at any time. Besides the daily reports of the HRFT the DTF provides monthly reports in German on important issues.

Reports

You find the daily reports of the HRFT using the left navigation or go to Reports in English. There are also some special reports that the DTF has prepared in English.

Basic info on HRFT and DTF

The Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF)

The Democratic Turkey Forum was established in Germany in 1990. Its main concerns are human rights and democracy in Turkey. DTF is not affiliated to any organization or political party and does not run an office or administration. DTF was recognized as working for common benefit and, therefore, donations to it are tax-free.

DTF considers itself as the German Support Group for the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT). On its website DTF makes use of material from the Documentation Center of HRFT (daily bulletins in English and Turkish).

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT)

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey was established in 1990 on initiative of the Human Rights Association (HRA). Both organizations are committed to fight against human rights abuses in their country. The two main areas of professional work of HRFT are the documentation of human rights violations and the treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors.

Offices for the treatment of torture survivors have been set up in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana and Diyarbakir. The treatment is free of charge. By the end of the year 2009 the number of treated torture survivors had reached almost 12,000.

The Documentation Center is run in Ankara. Human rights violations are documented in daily bulletins, annual and special reports. The reports are published in Turkish and English.

The HRFT does not accept money from institutions that contribute to human rights violations. The work of the HRFT is supported by a large number of volunteers and donations from individuals. Among the various national and international institutions that support the HRFT are: the UN, the Council of Europe, the Red Cross and Amnesty International.

On the homepage of the HRFT you can find the details for a contact to the HRFT.

You want to help?

You can contact us using demokrat-tr and (the sign for e-mail in between) freenet.de as the e-mail address. You can make donations to

• Demokratisches Türkeiforum
• Postbank Hamburg
• PLZ 200 100 20
• Konto-Nr. 0741 864 205

In Germany donations to the DTF are tax-free.

Discontinued

There is basically no fresh information in the community portal and under current events and, therefore, these items were removed from the navigation (as of January 2012).