There is almost a pattern. Some government officials say, “There is no harm in reopening the school , and there are some preparations taking...
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My colleague, the other expert, gave a fairly balanced briefing on human rights questions that we have been going through recently. I, however, found myself only talking about the...
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...
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‘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...
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...
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...
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The ‘deep state’ is smiling at me in the Malatya massacre case – IV –
20.02.2008 Wednesday, February 20, 2008, Turkis Daily News So what is the deep state? It is a joke. I hope one day we all laugh at the shallowness that...
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The ‘deep state’ is smiling at me in the Malatya massacre case – III –
20.02.2008 Saturday, February 16, 2008, Turkish Daily News I am the lawyer of the victims in the brutal murder case of three Christian missioners (by slitting their throats) in...