Diyarbakir mayor decries military-based solution to Kurdish problem
TNA-A controversial southeastern mayor on Friday said that ignoring calls for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem over the last 20 years had led to the militarization of Turkish society.
Bianet-The Strasbourg court decides that the 10 percent electoral threshold in Turkey doesn't constiute a violation of free expression of the opinion of the people. Yet, ruling AKP got 66 of the seats in the parliament by only 34 percent of the vote in 2002.
TNA-To draw attention to alleged human rights violations, two prominent non governmental organizations, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (HRFT) and the Human Rights Association (IHD), on Friday sent letters of protest to both Turkish and international officials.
TDA-Democratic Society Party (DTP) Kars branch head Mahmut Alinak received a death threat e-mail, which also threatens writer Orhan Pamuk and Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu, he said over the weekend.
Bianet-Thousands marched in assassinated Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink's funeral. Nationalist and racist reaction rise following chanted slogans "We're all Armenians". Debate on article 301 continues as five suspects get arrested on the case.
ANKARA, Turkey - Police detained a man who threatened to blow up a ferry in protest of pro-Armenian slogans chanted at a slain journalist's funeral, a provincial official said Sunday.
Human Rights Commissioner Ünsal: Patent for Kurdish lessons belongs to me
Hurriyet-Vice chairman of the TBMM (Grand National Assembly of Turkey) Human Rights Commission, AKP MP Faruk Ünsal, said that it was he who brought up the subject of elective Kurdish lessons two months ago in the TÜSIAD report.
Man linked to Dink murder threatens Nobel-winning author
Thenewanatolian-While the gunman who murdered Hrant Dink was charged yesterday after he signed his confession, Yasin Hayal, who is suspected of encouraging the murder, threatened Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.
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TNA-A controversial southeastern mayor on Friday said that ignoring calls for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem over the last 20 years had led to the militarization of Turkish society.
Bianet-The Strasbourg court decides that the 10 percent electoral threshold in Turkey doesn't constiute a violation of free expression of the opinion of the people. Yet, ruling AKP got 66 of the seats in the parliament by only 34 percent of the vote in 2002.
TNA-To draw attention to alleged human rights violations, two prominent non governmental organizations, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (HRFT) and the Human Rights Association (IHD), on Friday sent letters of protest to both Turkish and international officials.
TDA-Democratic Society Party (DTP) Kars branch head Mahmut Alinak received a death threat e-mail, which also threatens writer Orhan Pamuk and Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu, he said over the weekend.
Bianet-Thousands marched in assassinated Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink's funeral. Nationalist and racist reaction rise following chanted slogans "We're all Armenians". Debate on article 301 continues as five suspects get arrested on the case.
ANKARA, Turkey - Police detained a man who threatened to blow up a ferry in protest of pro-Armenian slogans chanted at a slain journalist's funeral, a provincial official said Sunday.
Hurriyet-Vice chairman of the TBMM (Grand National Assembly of Turkey) Human Rights Commission, AKP MP Faruk Ünsal, said that it was he who brought up the subject of elective Kurdish lessons two months ago in the TÜSIAD report.
Thenewanatolian-While the gunman who murdered Hrant Dink was charged yesterday after he signed his confession, Yasin Hayal, who is suspected of encouraging the murder, threatened Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.