However, the Bush administration argued that Guantanamo was foreign soil; therefore, US courts would have “no jurisdiction where the US was not sovereign.” Hence the government concluded that those...
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The ugly truth about the Kurdish question – the Armenian question!?
If we could discuss the Armenian question openly, if we could confront the Armenian tragedy, there would not have been a Kurdish question. We are far from understanding the...
There was interesting news coverage by Afrika last week concerning Maj. Esat Oktay Yıldıran, who served in Cyprus before becoming the commander of Diyarbakır Prison. From the Ergenekon file,...
Moreover, the president suspended the military commission proceedings in Guantanamo and argued that instead of military commissions, he would prefer federal courts or the military justice system prosecute detainees...
There is almost a pattern. Some government officials say, “There is no harm in reopening the school , and there are some preparations taking...
Torture is terror. We must reject it: no ifs, no buts. In the words of General Lord Guthrie, former chief of defence staff and one of the members of Institute...
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...