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Confronting Equality: The Need for Constitutional Protection of Minorities on Turkey’s Path to the European Union

7 Temmuz 20064 Şubat 2019

07.07.2006 With Turkey’s vigorous efforts to join the European Union (EU) and fulfill the requirements necessary to qualify for membership, debates over minority rights once again have become central...

Articles Disability Rights

Opening the Closed Doors

3 Temmuz 20064 Şubat 2019

03.07.2006 Behind Closed Doors* “The history of this type of madness has to be written down: Within the dominant rationalistic culture, before the other form in which people use...

Articles Prohibition Of Torture And Ill-treatment

Torture versus Morality

25 Haziran 20065 Şubat 2019

25.06.2006 There is a paradoxical “question” used in justifying torture, a sort of devil’s advocacy. The question was originally put forward by a German politician in the 70s. It...

Articles Rights To Fair Trial

It Is For Sake Of Justice, Not Öcalan

15 Mayıs 200615 Şubat 2019

15.05.2006 SERDAR ALMAYAÇ IZMIR – Turkish Daily News Sunday, May 15, 2005 President of Human Rights Agenda Association Orhan Kemal Cengiz, in criticizing the general reaction to the verdict...

Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

Freedom of expression project by IHGD

22 Ocak 20064 Şubat 2019

Serdar Alyamaç İZMİR – Turkish Daily News The Human Rights Agenda Association (IHGD), an Izmir-based nonprofit organization established in 2003 by human rights activists, jurists, lawyers and academics, have...

Articles Racism And Intolerance

Discrimination and Intolerance in Turkey

12 Eylül 20055 Şubat 2019

12.09.2005 Monday, September 12, 2005 Serdar Alyamac İZMİR – Turkish Daily News The Human Rights Agenda Association has recently issued a report on discrimination and intolerance in Turkey by underlining...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

Turkey falling on rule of law index

8 Haziran 20054 Şubat 2019

The World Justice Project (WJP) is an independent, multidisciplinary NGO working to advance the rule of law around the world. The Washington-based organization has a rule of law index...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights

The EU, turkey and Rule of Law

15 Nisan 200515 Şubat 2019

15.04.2005 Willemijn-Van Haaften Izmir, 15 April 2005 Human Rights Agenda Association, Human Rights Training Course Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a training course about Human Rights. Rule of...

Articles Minority Rights

Minority Foundations in Turkey: An Evaluation of Their Legal Problems

4 Nisan 20034 Şubat 2019

Today I will try to explain briefly the problems and obstacles that minority foundations in Turkey have been and are still facing. When we talk about the problems of...