First, let me tell you a story. It happened in İzmir a few weeks ago. A few lawyers, including a friend of mine, went to a pub just to...
Yazar: Rights Agenda Editor
No matter how insincere you are when you are using human rights rhetoric, it inevitably starts to penetrate your mind after a while. It starts to change the way...
HRRA: Ergenekon Case TR003/2009 April 2009 Ergenekon Case has been a great importance in Turkey’s actual public opinion approximately for a year. Ergenekon Case, which appears in the time...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
2009 Annual report on the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
16.04.2009 In their introductory remarks to the report, the successive Chairs of the Committee of Ministers’ special human rights meetings in 2009 stress the increasing burden faced by the...
Press release – 265(2009) Congress President a.i. condemns electoral violence in Turkey Strasbourg, 30.03.2009 – “I condemn the violence which eruptedduring local elections in Turkey on 29 March, leaving...
Selected Titles From Human Right Agenda
Turkey: No improvement in the situation of the conscientious objector despite judgment of the European Court
Press release – 249(2009) Turkey: No improvement in the situation of the conscientious objector despite judgment of the European Court Strasbourg, 25.03.2009 – The Committee of Ministers last week...
Press release – 229(2009) Strasbourg, 19.03.2009 – To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, on 21 March, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)...
Press release – 229(2009) Strasbourg, 19.03.2009 – To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, on 21 March, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)...
Selected Titles From Human Right Agenda
Minority Rights Group International Released New Turkey Report
Minority Rights Group International released new report on the education rights of minorities in Turkey: “Forgotten or Assimilated? Minorities in the Education System of Turkey” 16 March 2009 Since the Turkish...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
“Rulings anywhere that women must wear the burqa should be condemned – but banning such dresses here would be wrong” says Commissioner Hammarberg
12.03.2009 “Rightly, we react strongly against any regime ruling that women must wear these garments. But our opposition to such repressive methods should not lead to banning the same...