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Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

Freedom of expression is hostage to the Armenian question

5 Haziran 20094 Şubat 2019

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...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Do Kurds really want justice?

28 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019

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)...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Orhan Kemal Cengiz: Trying coup plotters is a revolution

25 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019

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...

Articles Minority Rights

Why the deep state targets Christians

23 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019

The youngster was sentenced, but nothing was revealed. Then, in 2007, Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian and a liberal journalist, was shot dead in front his newspaper, Agos, by another...

Articles Discrimination

No transsexuals or conservatives allowed!

15 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019

First, let me tell you a story. It happened in İzmir a few weeks ago. A few lawyers, including a friend of mine, went to a pub just to...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

On Ergenekon and fresh human rights defenders

7 Mayıs 20094 Şubat 2019

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...

Articles Disability Rights

European Conference on Protection and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe: towards full participation, inclusion and empowerment

10 Kasım 20084 Şubat 2019

10.11.2008 Conclusions by Alexander Vladychenko, Director General of Social Cohesion Council of Europe Mr Chairman, Ministers, Ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues and friends, It is a great honour...

Articles Disability Rights

“Respect and rights-based action instead of charity for people with disabilities”

10 Kasım 20084 Şubat 2019

10.11.2008 Thomas Hammarberg There are more than 80 million persons with disabilities in Europe. Their rights are recognized in international human rights treaties, including the recent UN Convention...

Articles Sexual Orientation

Gay priest is true to his faith, at odds with his church

10 Kasım 200815 Şubat 2019

10.11.2008 Steve Lopez Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times Father Geoffrey Farrow is a longtime Catholic priest who revealed recently that he is gay and opposed to Proposition 8,...

Articles Sexual Orientation

Hate, hypocrites and human rights by Terry Davis

19 Mayıs 200815 Şubat 2019

19.05.2008 In 1936, the SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler created the Gestapo’s Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion. As a result, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested...

Freedom of expression is hostage to the Armenian question

Do Kurds really want justice?

Orhan Kemal Cengiz: Trying coup plotters is a revolution

Why the deep state targets Christians

No transsexuals or conservatives allowed!

On Ergenekon and fresh human rights defenders

European Conference on Protection and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe: towards full participation, inclusion and empowerment

“Respect and rights-based action instead of charity for people with disabilities”

Gay priest is true to his faith, at odds with his church

Hate, hypocrites and human rights by Terry Davis

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