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Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on freedom of...
The last 100 years in Turkey have been a history of provocations and manipulations. We have seen the same film again and again. These manipulations and provocations were carried out for different purposes.
11 people have been convicted in Tunceli because of shouting the slogan "Martyrs Don't Die". Whatever is said or done by the people in this country constitutes a crime... Except for glorifying the Dersim Massacre and spreading...
To call the “Kafes [Cage] Operation” plans brought to light by the Taraf newspaper “horrible” is not sufficient. According to these plans, killings of non-Muslim Turkish citizens were to be carried out and blamed on Islamic...
A new poll shows that more than 80 percent of Alevi respondents residing in the east of the country would like to see Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen resign over his recent remarks, which angered...
I see it this way: Being a journalist in a foreign country, it seems, gives one the right to rid oneself of all journalistic qualifications and act like a lawyer, a prosecutor and even a judge in the face of the largest-ever...
Those who read the latest shocking story in daily Taraf yesterday would possibly not have been able to help smiling ironically. While the attempts to inject further confusion amongst ill-informed, distracted and already...
Compass Direct 19 November 2009 MALATYA — Judges and prosecutors in the trial regarding the murder of three Christians in this southeastern city in Turkey on Friday (Nov. 13) renewed their request for help from the Istanbul...
Is the Ergenekon affair helping to demilitarise Turkish politics? Or is the country's post-Islamist government using it to advance its own authority at the expense of the military?It's always hard to follow what's going on...
Lawyer Erdal Doğan has voiced serious concerns that the 2007 Zirve Publishing House murders, in which three people who sold Christian literature were killed, may be related to Ergenekon, a clandestine terrorist organization...
