Last Modified 04-07-2008 00.00

news about "Human Rights"

The Constitutional Court annulled the expression in the Civil Code that banned charity membership. ...»

Acting irresponsibly, the media turns a sexual relation between two children into a rape by a woman of a boy. ...»

According to the General Staff, the necessary security measures were taken in Dağlıca Ambush and the real objective of PKK was ...»

The European Peace Assembly demands that the Turkish government bring to justice those responsible for the Sivas massacre fifteen years ago ...»

The European Council reminds that the Greek population of the Aegean islands Bozcaada and Gökçeada were forced to leave their land ...»

The International Women’s Media Foundation awards Sevgül Uludağ, a journalist from Cyprus with the Courage in Journalism Award for her work ...»

Six UN organs got together in a public announcement to emphasize how the violence against women can easily include a dimension ...»

Emphasizing the AKP closure case in its latest report, the European Council proposes that Turkey goes back to being monitored. The ...»

President Gül signs into law the bill that opens the way for TRT to allocate a TV channel for non-Turkish mother ...»

According to the intelligence report published by the newspaper Taraf, the military intelligence knew about PKK’s Dağlıca ambush, which took place ...»

Adana military court released conscientious objector Mehmet Bal by finding him not fit for military service. His lawyer objects the decision, ...»

A German citizen child whose father is a political refuge was not allowed to enter Turkey since his name included previously ...»

Bezirgan, a “headscarfed woman”, who announced that she did not like Atatürk during a TV show, said that the issue is ...»

The students from the Bosphorus University organized a demonstration against the banning of headscarf in the universities. They declared that that ...»

The AKP deputy Reha Çamuroğlu, also the Prime Minister’s consultant for the matters related to Turkey’s Alevi community resigns his post, ...»

The court rejects the application by women’s organizations to join the trial process because they did not experience any damage. The ...»

After petty officers Şimşek and Şahin, who are on trial for negligence in Dink’s murder, and Aslan and Erdoğan, whose statements ...»

The Human Rights Investigation Committee may look into conscientious objector Bal’s ordeal, either when petitioned by the victim or informed about ...»

The court will discuss the request by Purple Roof Women’s Shelter to join the court process on June 12. The women’s ...»

Mehmet Bal, who refuses completing his military service on the ground of being a conscientious objector, goes on hunger strike to ...»

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