Turkey Fined For Human Rights Violations

[JStone]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) fined Turkey this week for violating the “right to life” and “access to court” principles of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case concerning a 7-year-old child who froze to death while walking home from school, after classes were cancelled due to a blizzard, because the municipality shuttle was late.

“The Court found that Turkish courts failed to hold accountable those responsible for the death of the child and to provide appropriate redress to his parents, [and fined them for] the excessive length of the proceedings as well as the refusal of the [applicants’ plea] for legal aid,” the ruling of the court stated, requiring Turkey to pay the applicants 50,000 euros for non-pecuniary damages and 4,500 euros for costs and expenses.

The child’s parents applied to the ECtHR in April 2006 stating that in 2004, their son Atalay died in İstanbul while walking home, which was four kilometers away from his school. The municipality shuttle did not come when school closed, as it had not been notified of the early dismissal.

ECtHR fines Turkey for human rights violation

Winston Churchill...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

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