Support Turkish Conscientious Objectors

Demand an end to the punishment of Turkish conscientious objectors

A campaign by War Resisters' International

WRI homepage > Programme Areas > The Right to Refuse to Kill > Support Turkish COs

International support for Turkish COs continues to be very important. This page contains links to CO testimony and to recent WRI alerts and reports on the situation of conscientious objectors in Turkey. This page contains links to CO testimony and to recent WRI alerts and reports on the situation of conscientious objectors in Turkey.

Reports

Table showing all 62 declared conscientious objectors in Turkey from 1989-2007, with links to statements from 23 of them
Refusing to Bear Arms reports on Turkey: 2005 and 1998
Documentation on conscientious objection in Turkey (WRI dossier of documents from internal and external sources)

Statements

Call for a day of action in support of Halil Savda (30/03/2007)
Letter to the presiding judge in the case of Halil Savda (26/03/2007)
WRI submits the case of Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan to the United Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, 19/08/2005
WRI Council Statement on Turkish Conscientious Objector Mehmet Tarhan; Seoul, 02/07/2005

CO testimony

Interview with Mehmet Tarhan, from the Spanish magazine Diagonal: English | español
Mehmet Tarhan
Erdem Yalçınkaya
Mustafa Seyhoglu
Ersan Ugur Gor
Ugur Yorulmaz

CO Alerts

2007

2006

TURKEY: Conscientious objector Halil Savda arrested 07/12/2006
TURKEY: Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan sentenced to 25 months imprisonment 17/10/2006
TURKEY: Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan released unexpectedly 09/03/2006
TURKEY: Solitary confinement for Mehmet Tarhan - arbitrary punishment 15/2/2006

2005

Other sources

Amnesty International index page for Turkey