JINHA

ANKARA – Lawyer Ceren Şimşek stated the access right to the internet is accepted as a fundamental right and the Turkish state, which signed the contracts, violates human rights by blocking the internet in Kurdistan. Ceren pointed out that the blocking is to prevent people to follow what is going on.

On the heels of police raid on the building of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality and the detention of co-mayor, the internet connection across the Kurdish region was cut. Lawyer Ceren Şimşek evaluated the interruption of internet connection for two days and said blocking internet in Kurdistan is violation of human right.

Ceren said that the UN declared internet access a “basic human right” on July, 4, 2011 and access to internet has been listed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as “Third Generation Human Rights”. Ceren said, “The access right to the internet is one of the human rights. I mean the blocking the access to internet is violation of human rights.”

Ceren also pointed out that the blocking the access to internet in Kurdistan cities aimed to prevent the people in Kurdistan and the west to follow what was going on.

(sy/gd)