10 Nov 2009 – Human Rights I have never been afraid of death, even now that I feel it closest to me. I can sense it and I’m familiar with it, for it is an old acquaintance of this land and this people. I’m not writing about death but about...
The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of a Kurdish man sentenced to death for "enmity against God" in connection with his alleged membership of an illegal opposition group, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian is...
As part of a diplomatic trip to different European countries, Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, will pay an official visit to Brussels on Tuesday 10 November. President Barzani will meet Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common...
To Abdullah GülIt has come to our knowledge that the Human Rights-activist Yuksel Mutlu, Foundation of Human Rights of Turkey, is held imprisoned at the Bargana prison in Izmir. She was arrested after that she had written a report about the incidents in...
Dear sir, Today in Turkey, because of the TMK (Terörle Mücadele Kanunu / Law to Fight Terror) of 1991, thousands of childeren are interrogated, judged, sentenced, and imprisoned as if they were “adults”. These Children, whom we call the...
The publication Jun. 12 of an article in Taraf, a liberal newspaper, of an alleged plan by army officers to overthrow the government and incriminate Fethullah Gulen, a religious leader and founder of the country’s largest Muslim brotherhood, revived the polemic...
