Mazlumder

Yılmaz Ensaroğlu, Ayhan Bilge, Ahmet Faruk Ünsal

The Association for Human Rights and Solidarity with the Oppressed ( tr: İnsan Haklari ve Mazlumlar için Dayanisma Derneği, in short: MAZLUMDER or Mazlum Der) was founded on 28 January 1991 by 54 people in Ankara. There, the headquarters is also located. By the year 1997, Mazlum - The 13 branches and 4,000 members.

Structure of the Association

MAZLUMDER was established in addition to the human rights association IHD and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey TIHV that the problems of devout Muslims rather delicate to touch at the beginning. Besides the headquarters of the Association in Ankara, there are branches in Ağrı, Afyon, Akyazı, Ankara, Batman, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Sakarya, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon, Usak and Van. Within Mazlum - The are five departments that are responsible for organizing, training, media, social relations and law. Six committees working on specific problems. The most important committee within Mazlum -Der is the Commission, which generally deals with human rights violations and documented them. Among the problems in the Kurdish areas by a commission, the " Southeast Commission " is called.

Focus of work

The club has the protection of human rights set in and outside of Turkey to the target. With this aim it organizes events and publishes publications such as annual statistics, etc. At the same time he wants to help victims of human rights violations assistance. Among the published in Turkish reports include:

• Report on the Muslim Turkish minority in Western Thrace - (2012 )
• Chronology of the headscarf ban 1964-2011
• Human Rights Report Afghanistan in 2011
• Report on human rights in Tunisia 2011
• Human Rights Report 2011 Bangladesh

Hamper the work

There has been not only against the IHD but also against MAZLUMDER multiple processes and branches in 1999 were ( in Urfa and Malatya ) temporarily closed in the Kurdish areas through arrangements of governors. On 19 June 1999, the head office and all branches nationwide were searched and seized important material (also in the offices of board members ). There were also unsubstantiated suspicions of the connection to armed Islamist groups. Thus Özkan Hoşhanlı, former chairman of the branch office in Malatya, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, because he should have participated in demonstrations in April and May 1999 compared the headscarf ban. After the demonstrations in Malatya prosecutor had demanded the death penalty for " the attempt to create public unrest with the aim of violent change of the constitutional order of Turkey ."