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...
Articles
Democracy And Human Rights
‘Soldiers waiting for the barbarians’: discouraging military service?
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...
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...
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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Freedom Of Thought And Expression
Freedom of expression is hostage to the Armenian question
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...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
Kosovo’s independence leaves vacuum in international protection for minorities
“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...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Turkey
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...
“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...
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...