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Urgent Call from Turkey’s Human Rights Organizations to the International Community

Posted on 8 Ocak 201612 Şubat 2019
08 January 2016 With the interruption of the peace talks, the government of Turkey started, in mid-August, to implement a security policy that unlawfully restricts fundamental rights and freedoms...
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Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

From June 7 to Nov. 1: Turkey under scrutiny

Posted on 18 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019
Just over four months ago, my fellows OSCE parliamentarians and I were in Turkeyfor elections that were vibrant, but tainted by restrictions to media freedom and other issues of concern. This time, we hope to observe...
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Articles Human Rights Defenders

Farewell, Tahir Elçi

Posted on 4 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019
I’ve lost a friend I’ll never be able to replace. I’ve lost a piece of my life. And now, for the first time, it occurs to me what torture...
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Articles Human Rights Defenders

Loss of a friend never easy

Posted on 4 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019
I’m in Diyarbakır to fulfill my last duty to my friend. Tahir Elçi was not only a very good lawyer and a human rights defender, but he was also...
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Articles Human Rights Defenders

What can we do?

Posted on 18 Kasım 20154 Şubat 2019
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), probably the most bloodthirsty terrorist group ever, hit Paris on Friday night. According to news agencies, 129 died and hundreds...
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Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

Detention of Tahir Elçi

Posted on 24 Ekim 20154 Şubat 2019
Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer and chair of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was detained last Monday for spreading Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) propaganda. Previously, Elçi appeared in Ahmet Hakan’s...
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Articles International Human Rights Mechanisms

A way to investigate ISIL atrocities

Posted on 21 Ekim 20154 Şubat 2019
Four in Diyarbakır, 34 in Suruç and 102 in Ankara, a total of 140 deaths for which the government declared that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Dismantling democracy in Turkey: a civil rights perspective (II)

Posted on 26 Eylül 20154 Şubat 2019
The effective enjoyment of fundamental freedoms granted by domestic constitutions is the only reliable indicator of any country’s democratization status: All human liberties set forth by national charters connote...
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Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Dismantling democracy in Turkey: a civil rights perspective (I)

Posted on 14 Eylül 20154 Şubat 2019
The term democracy describes a form of government in which the legitimacy to rule (kratos) is bestowed upon the people (demos) of a state, who exert it with a...
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Articles Discrimination

Kurdophobia

Posted on 1 Eylül 20157 Nisan 2023
Günal Kurşun From time to time, I think about the social roots of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. It is obvious that there is ongoing discrimination against and “otherization” of Kurds...

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