The applicants are six Turkish nationals: Fırat Dink, who was known under the pen name of Hrant Dink, his wife (Rahil Dink), his brother (Hasrof Dink) and Fırat and...
Yazar: Rights Agenda Editor
Articles
Democracy And Human Rights
U2 calls on us to remember grave human rights violations in Turkey
In my previous article I said the 1980 coup plotters should be put on trial for the crimes against humanity they committed. As soon as the article was published,...
Arrests, tortures, executions On and after Sept. 12, 1980, 650,000 people from every part of the political spectrum were taken into custody. Stadiums were turned into detention centers. Those...
2010 Press Releases
Press Releases
NGOs gathered in Kampala Call for End to Impunity Crisis Following Israeli Attack on Aid Convoy
15 June 2010 We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians carrying humanitarian...
2010 Press Releases
Press Releases
An Open Call To The Grand National Assembly Of Turkey And The Constitutional Court Of The Rebuplic Of Turkey
09 June 2010 On 7 May 2010, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey passed a bill on Turkey’s constitutional amendments offering partial relief for the entrenched military influence over civilians...
When Kurds were butchered in the Southeast, I was fighting for justice for the Kurds. I am not a Kurd by ethnicity. During my whole career as a human...
I. Meeting Activities The first day of the Meeting was devoted to the human rights movement in the Balkans. Orhan Kemal Cengiz, President of HRAA, provided opening remarks and seven...
“What needs to be done now is to re-evaluate evidence in light of the newest developments,” he told Today’s Zaman for Monday Talk. “This is a delayed action but...
Editors-in-chief of national newspapers, columnists, academics, lawyers and others attended the workshops quite eagerly and produced quite interesting material. I think the results of the workshops will make the...
12.03.2010 In the run-up to the election, there were several attacks on Christians, which community leaders stated were intended to discourage minorities from voting in the nationwide poll. On...