Antimilitarizm in Turkey

Turkey: Support of Vicdani Ret İzleme

New Releases

Ercan Genç

"I want to make our voices heard as conscientious objectors all over the world"

Ercan Genç, Türkei/Deutschland speaks in YouTube-channel @RefusetoKill

(13.03.2024) Newly published today: A video with Ercan Genç from Turkey, who is undergoing asylum proceedings in Germany and is thus making his conscientious objection known for the first time. In an interview with Roni S. from Connection e.V., he talks about his story and motivations. The video is available on our YouTube channel (at)RefusetoKill in Turkish with English and German subtitles: https://youtu.be/pJGncr68NAU.

Press Release

Two years after the start of the war: PRO ASYL and Connection e.V. criticise asylum rejections of Russian refusers

(21.02.2024) Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) continues to reject Russian refusers and obliges them to return to Russia. Connection e.V. and PRO ASYL are alarmed by the BAMF’s reasoning, which ignores the risk for Russian refusers of being recruited in a war that violates international law.

From our Projects

Conscientious Objectors In Turkey Need Your Support to Continue Their Struggle

Newsletter March 2024

(11.03.2024) We are writing you once again inform you about our Conscientious Objection Watch donation campaign and ask for your support. As the Conscientious Objection Watch, we received many applications from conscientious objectors in 2023. In these applications, most of the objectors asked for information about the human rights violations and restrictions they experienced and requested support from our organization.

Actions and Events

Rudi Friedrich

Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab: Call for applications

War Resisters’ International is happy to announce the first cycle of the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab: An online workshop series (taking place between 29th February and 23rd May) exploring antimilitarist campaigning and its intersection with relevant issues such as the militarisation of borders, the climate crisis and the arms trade.