10.07.2006 BİA (Istanbul) – The Human Rights Agenda Association (IHDG) has issued a statement following an attack on human rights activists, academics and observers during a promotional press conference in...
Yazar: Rights Agenda Editor
08.07.2006 BİA (Istanbul) – Advocates of human rights in Turkey are standing up in defence of Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul branch former chair Eren Keskin after a group of Turkish women...
08.07.2006 BİA (Istanbul) – Advocates of human rights in Turkey are standing up in defence of Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul branch former chair Eren Keskin after a group of Turkish women...
Articles
Minority Rights
Confronting Equality: The Need for Constitutional Protection of Minorities on Turkey’s Path to the European Union
07.07.2006 With Turkey’s vigorous efforts to join the European Union (EU) and fulfill the requirements necessary to qualify for membership, debates over minority rights once again have become central...
03.07.2006 Behind Closed Doors* “The history of this type of madness has to be written down: Within the dominant rationalistic culture, before the other form in which people use...
25.06.2006 There is a paradoxical “question” used in justifying torture, a sort of devil’s advocacy. The question was originally put forward by a German politician in the 70s. It...
15.05.2006 SERDAR ALMAYAÇ IZMIR – Turkish Daily News Sunday, May 15, 2005 President of Human Rights Agenda Association Orhan Kemal Cengiz, in criticizing the general reaction to the verdict...
2006 Press Releases
Press Releases
Kosovo: Increasing Acts of Violence Lead to Human Rights Violations
10.02.2006 As reported by Beta news agency, in an attack on Serbian families on 5 February 2006 in Cernica village, in Gilan town of Kosovo, the house of...
Serdar Alyamaç İZMİR – Turkish Daily News The Human Rights Agenda Association (IHGD), an Izmir-based nonprofit organization established in 2003 by human rights activists, jurists, lawyers and academics, have...
22.01.2006 The struggle to protect individual freedoms and support for the democratic process continues to be waged by NGOs in Turkey, says IHGD Chairman Cengiz, noting that legislators fail...