Many people in Turkey are kidnapped and tortured for their thoughts. Many of them are not even heard from. 

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Veel mensen in Turkije worden ontvoerd en gemarteld vanwege hun gedachten. Van velen van hen wordt niet eens iets vernomen. 

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Türkiye'de birçok insan düşüncesinden dolayı kaçırılıp işkenceye uğruyor. Birçoğundan haber dahi alınamıyor. Bu kaybedilen hayatların sesi oluyoruz.

Türkiye'de birçok insan düşüncesinden dolayı kaçırılıp işkenceye uğruyor. Birçoğundan haber dahi alınamıyor.

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Today, with the developing technology, social media is one of the most important tools for explaining human rights and announcing human rights violations. For this reason, a social media platform has been established within our foundation for the effective use of social media tools.

Vandaag de dag, met de zich ontwikkelende technologie, is sociale media een van de belangrijkste instrumenten om mensenrechten uit te leggen en mensenrechtenschendingen aan te kondigen. Om deze reden is er binnen onze stichting een social media platform opgericht voor het effectief inzetten van social media tools.

Günümüzde gelişen teknolojiyle birlikte sosyal medya insan haklarının anlatılması ve insan hakları ihlallerinin duyurulması için en önemli araçlardandır. Bu nedenle sosyal medya araçlarının etkin bir biçimde kullanılması için, vakfımız bünyesinde sosyal medya platformu kurulmuştur. 



On Saturday morning, September 7 2023, Koray Vural, a businessman living in Tajikistan for 29 years, was kidnapped in front of his restaurant in Dushanbe and taken to Turkey.His family is worried.

Where is Koray Vural!


İsmet Özçelik was kidnapped from Malaysia and brought to Turkey in 2017 despite being under the protection of the United Nations. 

Özçelik, who was arrested and sent to prison, suffers from heart disease and diabetes. 


Cihan Özkan 

was kidnapped from Kosovo in 2018 and has been detained for 5 years. He has been held in a cell in Marmara Prison, and although his release date has already come and gone, he has been prevented from being released by not being granted probation for months.

Gökhan Türkmen 
is detained in Ankara Sincan Prison. Türkmen was released in Antalya 9 months after being kidnapped. Then he was  detained as if he had just been found.  His statements are as follows:

 I was tortured, harassed and threatened for 271 days. I was tortured for 9 months.



Orhan İnandı, an educator who was tortured after being kidnapped by MIT in Kyrgyzstan, was sentenced to 21 years in prison.


Gülistan Doku, 

a university student who was abducted in Tunceli and never heard from again, has been missing for 1345 days.



Sunay Elmas, an educator whose illegal interrogation was attended by Hakan FİDAN, the head of Turkish National Intelligence Service, has been missing for 7 years. 

The authorities have not made a single statement on this issue.


A Chaldean couple living in Şırnak were abducted 3.5 years ago. Shimuni Diril's dead body was found 3 months later. Hurmüz Diril is still missing. 

Their daughter Gülcan Diril says her parents were victims of a planned murder.


Mehmet BAL 

has been missing for 3 years. His son emphasizes that they have applied to all necessary state institutions to find his father and underlines that they have not seen a positive approach from any state institution since the first day.

Yusuf Bilge TUNÇ
was abducted 4 years ago on August 6, 2019 in Ankara Gimat in a black Transporter.TUNÇ's location  has been unknown since then. His father Mustafa Tunç: 

"If he was in prison you would go and visit him, there is nothing more painful than not knowing what happened...!"


Zabit Kişi, who was kidnapped from Kazakhstan and tortured for 108 days: 

At the place where I was abducted, they tortured me by stripping me naked, they crushed my toes, my ribs cracked, they stepped on my handcuffed hands with their feet, I have loss of sensation.


Was Ayhan Oran summoned to the country to be executed? 

Oran, a former MIT employee, was summoned to Turkey in June 2016 while on duty in Greece, suspended on July 17, dismissed on August 2, kidnapped on November 1 and has not been heard from since.

Yasin Ugan, 

who appeared at the Ankara Central Police Station 7 months after his abduction, described the torture he was subjected to in court.

 "I lived with a bag over my head for 6 months, I was red in the face, I was severely tortured.

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