{"id":2660,"date":"2026-02-07T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:48:21","slug":"human-rights-group-reports-118-arrests-842-detentions-during-rojava-protests-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2660\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights group reports 118 arrests, 842 detentions during Rojava protests in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 842 people were detained and 118 arrested during demonstrations held across Turkey to protest Damascus\u2019s military campaign against Kurdish-led forces in the Rojava region of northeastern Syria, the Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (\u00d6HD) said on Monday.<\/p>\n

According to the \u00d6HD report<\/a>, which documented 49 separate protests across 19 provinces between January 1 and February 2, 133 detainees were released under judicial supervision, while 106 individuals reported being subjected to ill treatment during detention.<\/p>\n

At least 99 of those detained and 25 of those arrested were minors, raising serious concerns over violations of the best interests of the child principle and international conventions on the rights of the child, the report says.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference, \u00d6HD executive board member Mehmet \u00d6ner said detainees were accused of \u201cdisseminating terrorist propaganda,\u201d \u201cparticipating in an unlawful assembly\u201d or \u201cresisting a public officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00d6ner said detentions were carried out arbitrarily and without concrete evidence, with custody periods unlawfully extended and pretrial detention increasingly used as a punitive measure. He also noted that lawyers and journalists<\/a> covering the protests were also detained and that some were physically assaulted.<\/p>\n

The \u00d6HD called for an end to bans on peaceful assemblies, an immediate halt to arbitrary detentions and arrests, and independent investigations into allegations of torture and ill-treatment.<\/p>\n

Fifteen Turkish bar associations had previously issued<\/a> a joint\u00a0statement\u00a0on January 26 criticizing police interventions and detentions linked to those protests.<\/p>\n

Northeastern Syria is largely controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which have been a key US ally in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).<\/p>\n

Ankara views the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), which dominate the SDF, as an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 and is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.<\/p>\n

In May the PKK announced that it would lay down its arms to pursue a democratic struggle to defend the rights of the Kurdish minority, in line with a call by its jailed leader Abdullah \u00d6calan. The Turkish Parliament in August established a special\u00a0parliamentary commission<\/a>\u00a0to oversee the peace efforts. However, Kurdish civil society groups\u00a0argue<\/a>\u00a0that structural reforms safeguarding fundamental rights have yet to be implemented, raising concerns about the sincerity and scope of any efforts at normalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 842 people were detained and 118 arrested during demonstrations held across Turkey to protest Damascus\u2019s military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[2935,2936,312,2937,429,2938,2066,131,132,2049,2914,155],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-association-for-the-freedom-of-lawyers-ohd","tag-freedom-of-peaceful-assembly","tag-human-rights","tag-mehmet-oner","tag-oppression","tag-right-to-peaceful-protest","tag-rojava","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-syrian-democratic-forces-sdf","tag-syrian-kurds","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}