Inter­na­tio­nal Support of Conscien­tious Objec­tors and Deserters

Nuri Silay, Cyprus: Wherever in the world we call everyone to refuse to be part of the military

Video on YouTube channel Refuse to Kill

(15.05.2020) As with the Covid-19 pandemic humanity is facing a serious health crisis, it reveals that the money allocated to armament causes more people to die from the pandemic, to remain unemployed, without an income, precarious and without housing.

EBCO criticises failure of European institutions to implement the right to co

Regression and political lack of interest

(14.02.2020) In its Annual Report on Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe 2019, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) red-flags the multiple discriminations that conscientious objectors to military service continue to undergo in Europe. In the political context of a growing importance attached to European defence cooperation, armament projects and joint military operations, the right to conscientious objection to military service risks to be marginalized instead of being consistently perceived as a human right to be monitored and guaranteed.

Nicosia, Cyprus: Conscientious objectors in a divided city

Video on YouTube

(27.11.2019) It is 45 years since Turkey and Greece came to blows in Cyprus, and the island remains physically and politically divided - not least by a wall that cuts through the capital, Nicosia. But a new generation of conscientious objectors are risking prison – and the scorn of their elders – by refusing to take up arms against each other.

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector released

(18.01.2019) Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasiaoglou, 33, was released from the prison in the north on Friday after serving three of the 20 days that were initially imposed by a military court earlier in January.