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2009 Press Releases Press Releases

“The right to housing is essential in a democratic society”, says Commissioner Hammarberg

Posted on 1 Temmuz 200914 Şubat 2019
“Many people across Europe are experiencing a great housing need which is exacerbated by the current economic crisis. Significant numbers of people cannot access housing in the market while...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Ergenekon: An urban legend?

Posted on 26 Haziran 20094 Şubat 2019
According to some, the ruling party is now taking revenge for the closure case against it. For some Westerners, the Ergenekon case is just a part of the dirty...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

‘Soldiers waiting for the barbarians’: discouraging military service?

Posted on 19 Haziran 20094 Şubat 2019
I was sitting in my room in the Human Rights Agenda Association’s Ankara office. Günal Kurşun, secretary-general of our association, in a matter-of-fact voice said to me, “I think...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Benefits of Islamophobia

Posted on 15 Haziran 20094 Şubat 2019
One columnist at the Hürriyet daily — the number one white Turk newspaper — revealed that his step-grandmother was Armenian. After passing his 60s, he “confessed” this and expressed...
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2009 Press Releases Press Releases

World Organisation Against Torture: 2008 Annual Report

Posted on 9 Haziran 200914 Şubat 2019
In 2007 and 2008, OMCT demonstrated through studying numerous cases that those whose economic, social and cultural rights had been violated were often imprisoned and mistreated if they protested....
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Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

Freedom of expression is hostage to the Armenian question

Posted on 5 Haziran 20094 Şubat 2019
If Erdoğan or someone else said “You know how to kill very well,” to the members of an institution in Turkey, let us say against the military commanders, he...
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2009 Press Releases Press Releases

Kosovo’s independence leaves vacuum in international protection for minorities

Posted on 29 Mayıs 200915 Şubat 2019
“These minorities also suffer from lack of access to information or to tertiary education in their own languages. This, combined with tough economic conditions, have resulted in many of...
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2009 Press Releases Press Releases

Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Turkey

Posted on 29 Mayıs 200914 Şubat 2019
Strasbourg, 28.05.2009 – The Council of Europe’s Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its visit...
2009 Press Releases Press Releases

It’s Not Just The Economy, It’s a Human Rights Crisis

Posted on 28 Mayıs 200914 Şubat 2019
“The economic downturn has aggravated abuses, distracted attention from them and created new problems. In the name of security, human rights were trampled on. Now, in the name of...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Do Kurds really want justice?

Posted on 28 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019
Blood on their hands Let us start with a little bit of background. In Turkey we have had an armed conflict between the outlawed pro-Kurdish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...

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