This presentation was made by Prof. Dr. Yasemin İnceoğlu in the second conference for combating hate crimes entitled “The Concept of Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Combating Hate Crimes”...
This presentation was made by Dr. Karsten Krupna in the second conference for combating hate crimes in Turkey entitled “The Concept of Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Combating Hate...
2010 Press Releases
Press Releases
Turkey: ARTICLE 19 Calls on Government to Lead by Example during Committee of Ministers Chairmanship
23 November 2010 Through their ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe Member States are obligated to respect and protect the right to freedom of...
13 October 2010 Hakan Ataman, general project director of the Human Rights Agenda Association (HRAA) With hate crimes increasingly a problem in Turkey, civil society groups are working to highlight...
The applicants are six Turkish nationals: Fırat Dink, who was known under the pen name of Hrant Dink, his wife (Rahil Dink), his brother (Hasrof Dink) and Fırat and...
Articles
Democracy And Human Rights
U2 calls on us to remember grave human rights violations in Turkey
In my previous article I said the 1980 coup plotters should be put on trial for the crimes against humanity they committed. As soon as the article was published,...
Arrests, tortures, executions On and after Sept. 12, 1980, 650,000 people from every part of the political spectrum were taken into custody. Stadiums were turned into detention centers. Those...
2010 Press Releases
Press Releases
NGOs gathered in Kampala Call for End to Impunity Crisis Following Israeli Attack on Aid Convoy
15 June 2010 We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians carrying humanitarian...
2010 Press Releases
Press Releases
An Open Call To The Grand National Assembly Of Turkey And The Constitutional Court Of The Rebuplic Of Turkey
09 June 2010 On 7 May 2010, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey passed a bill on Turkey’s constitutional amendments offering partial relief for the entrenched military influence over civilians...
When Kurds were butchered in the Southeast, I was fighting for justice for the Kurds. I am not a Kurd by ethnicity. During my whole career as a human...