12.08.2007 Saturday, August 11, 2007, Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal CENGIZ In my opinion, the term ‘Islamophobia’ is insufficient for and incapable of explaining the situation in Turkey. ‘Islamophobia’, a...
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Conscientious Objection
The interview of Hakan Ataman, SG of the Human Rights Agenda Association with Osman Murat Ülke via e-mail on 26.07.2007
10.08.2007 HA: Dear Ossi (as we call Osman Murat Ülke), you spent almost 2 years in prison for refusing military service and now the prosecutor’s office in Eskişehir called...
10.08.2007 Thursday, August 9, 2007, Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal CENGIZ After the elections we immediately began discussing the need for a new constitution. Unfortunately the way these discussions started...
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A Congress fact finding mission on local democracy in Turkey
07.08.2007 Press Release – 543(2007) Strasbourg, 06.08.2007- A Congress delegation will visit Turkey from 6 to 10 August on a fact-finding mission. The Congress Bureau has been following local...
04.08.2007 Saturday, August 4, 2007, Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal Cengiz The military is one of the difficult subjects to discuss in Turkey. As soon as you get ready to...
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Urgent Action / Turkey: Possible prisoner of conscience: Osman Murat Ülke
26.07.2007 PUBLIC AI Index: EUR 44/015/2007 19 July 2007 UA 186/07 Possible prisoner of conscience TURKEY Osman Murat Ülke (m), aged 36, conscientious objector Conscientious objector Osman Murat Ülke,...
20.07.2007 As EU Equivocates, Government Stalls on Human Rights Reforms (NewYork, July 19, 2007) – As Turkey prepares for parliamentary elections on July 22, the Turkish military’s interference in...
15.07.2007 Friday, July 13, 2007 – Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal Cengiz We have a phrase in Turkish,”felaket tellalı,” which can be translated literally into English as”scaremonger.” For the last three...
07.07.2007 Friday, July 6, 2007, Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal Cengiz Pew Global Attitudes Survey on how the United States is perceived throughout the world provoked much discussion in...
29.06.2007 Friday, June 29, 2007, ISTANBUL – Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal Cengiz Because of my title you might expect me to talk about the harassment, intimidation and violence that human...