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EFD Rights Watch: “An informant offers to cooperate in the Dink murder probe:
An informant offers to cooperate in the Dink murder probe: report from Hurriyet Daily News The Istanbul prosecutor investigating the murder of Hrant Dink received a letter Feb. 13... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Number of arrested students rise, KCK operations and more…
Number of arrested students ‘on the rise’ in Turkey from Hurriyet Daily News A recent report prepared by the Solidarity with Arrested Students Platform says that there are currently 771... Read more
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Free fall…. Mehdi Hasan writes the story of free speech being lost in Turkey…
In Turkey the right to free speech is being lost | Mehdi Hasan by Mehdi Hasan Erdogan is using a series of alleged plots to justify a crackdown on dissent... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Support Video for Prof. Ersanlı, Kurdish Migrant Women, More detained at KCK operations…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Msg87Mg9s Video Support from Her Students In order to protest the imprisonment of Büşra Ersanlı, “The Students of Büşra Ersanlı” prepared a video series. Ersanlı speaks about ‘love’, with the... Read more
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So the State confesses negligence in Dink murder… 1023 Child Political Convicts in 2010… EFD Rights Watch
Turkish state personnel knew Dink was to be killed, presidential board says from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey’s State Audit Board (DDK) completed a report into the murder of Turkish-Armenian... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Mizgin Mujde Arslan and Ozay Sahin, also victims of KCK trial…
Mizgin Mujde Arslan and Ozay Sahin have been detained on Monday, February 13th Dear Friends, We regret to inform that our friends and colleagues Mizgin Mujde Arslan and Ozay Sahin... Read more
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Politics roundup: Erdoğan’s second surgery; MIT intelligence agency legally immunized; orgy of arrests in KCK continues…
via Erdoğan after the second surgery… Erdoğan’s post-surgery photographs released from Hurriyet Daily News The Prime Ministry’s Office yesterday released the first photograph taken of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “Ragip Zarakolu, human rights symbol in modern Turkey”; new KCK arrests today…
Ragip Zarakolu, human rights symbol in modern Turkey, Bulent Gokay from open Democracy News Analysis – by Bulent Gokay Turkey will become a real global power only when the high... Read more
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Turkey’s intel chief, Hakan Fidan, “suspect” in KCK case… looks like a warning to Erdoğan’s reign…
PM Erdoğan personally had given support for Mr. Fidan now he is a “suspect” because he got talks with the PKK representatives in Norway… Looks like a warning to PM... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Not surprisingly “Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index
Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index Turkey fell back ten places to number 148 in the 2011-2012 World Press Freedom Index. According to the report of Reporters... Read more
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10:25 Son KCK dalgasında KESK Genel Merkezi de hedef oldu…
[View the story "10:25 Son KCK dalgasında KESK Genel Merkezi de hedef oldu" on... Read more
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As Kılıçdaroğlu becomes the new target of Judicary and KCK arrests continue, an Economist slideshow of who crossed Ankara and ended up in jail…
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu addresses party members at the Parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Kilicdaroglu accused the judiciary of doing the government’s... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: NYT states “Turkey’s Glow Dims”
Turkey’s Glow Dims as Government Limits Free Speech from NYT > Turkey by By DAN BILEFSKY and SEBNEM ARSU While Washington and Europe praise Turkey as the model of Muslim... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Two Students Under Custody Since 2009…with no evidence…
Two Students Under Custody Since 2009, Despite Lack of Evidence Two university students, who were arrested during a demonstration will remain in prison as the the prosecution fail to show... Read more
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in the mean time, deputy PM, under whose government thousands of Kurdish activists are imprisoned, vows more rights for Kurds… A politics roundup…
Deputy PM vows more rights for Turkey’s Kurds from Hurriyet Daily News Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç promises more rights to the country’s citizens of Kurdish origin in a speech…... Read more
