What is the Kurdistan Human Rights Project?
At first the organisation adopted the name Kurdistan Human Rights Project’ to reflect its ambition to focus on improving human rights for all people within this afflicted geographical region. However, the name proved problematic. The Turkish government in particular felt threatened by the establishment of a human rights organisation dedicated to challenging human rights abuse. In 1994, in an effort to counter propaganda that the organisation’s underlying aim was the establishment of a Kurdish state, the name was changed to the Kurdish Human Rights Project’.
