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)...
Orhan Kemal Cengiz, the chairman of the Human Rights Agenda Association and a jurist-writer, says the country has come a long way since the time when naming schools and...
HRRA: Press Statement TR 002/ 2008- We Want Justice not Revenge! 25 March 2008 Turkey has been passing a tough test in terms of democracy and human rights’ applications...
The youngster was sentenced, but nothing was revealed. Then, in 2007, Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian and a liberal journalist, was shot dead in front his newspaper, Agos, by another...
HRAA: Hate Crimes TR004/2009 May 2009 Crimes of Hatred are Nurtured by Discrimination! It is alleged that sociologist Ali Bulaç argued that “the mass killings that have taken place...
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...
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...