It is the 62nd day in hunger strikes…and PM’s response is to reconsider Death Penalty…. EFD Rights Watch..

PM insists on continuing debate on death penalty from Hurriyet Daily News Bringing the death penalty back into the Turkish legislative system has apparently become a permanent agenda item for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.. PM Urges to Reconsider Death Penalty from Bianet :: English Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, calling hunger strikes as … Read more

rethinking death penalty may another sign of leaving the EU dream… A FP roundup..

From the Bosphorus: Straight – Renewed death penalty no answer by HDN Turkey formally abolished the death penalty in 2002. It was the right decision then. It is the right decision today. The return of the death penalty by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK The brutal killings of three children in Kayseri as well as one in … Read more

Europe goin’ crazy: Sarkozy to go his Roma policy, Swiss initiative to re-introduce death penalty….

MAIN FOCUS: Europe unsettled by death penalty initiative | 25/08/2010 from euro|topics The campaign to collect signatures on reintroducing the death penalty in Switzerland was stopped by its initiators today, Wednesday, a day after it began. By their own account the organisers wanted to draw attention to shortcomings in the prosecution of sex killings. The … Read more