The “Conscientious Objection Right Monitoring in Turkey Under the Shadow of the Legislative Measures and Human Rights Restrictions Report” was launched by six different organisations, including the Conscientious Objection Association, on the application of Country Group case decrees under the qualified monitoring of the Council of Europe’s Ministers Committee, which Turkey is a member of.
The report was presented in the last months to the Council of Europe Committee and was launched with its Turkish translation, revealing that Turkey insists on not recognising the right to conscientious objection. The statement made by the Conscientious Objection Association on the report stated that Turkey hasn’t made related regulations on the right to conscientious objection despite the demand of the Council of Europe Committee, therefore abandoning conscientious objectors to civil death. “We demand the government to take the necessary steps and remind them that they have to recognise the right to conscientious objection in accordance with the universal standards of human rights,” the association stated.
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26.10.2020
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