turkey's Steadily Deteriorating Human Rights

UK jailed "News-of-the-World" journalists because they engaged in criminal activity and UK will be listed in "Press-Freedom"-Index of 2012.
But that doesn't say anything about press-freedom in UK unless you make the distinction between journalists and criminal Journalists.
Same thing in Turkey.
Yes, journalists also can engage in crime.
 
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There are not 76 journalists in jail, but 7 journalists are behind jail
( Reporters without borders )
PRESS FREEDOM BAROMETER 2011 - Reporters Without Borders

It has now decreased to 6 as Ahmet Sik was released.
4 of the 6 journalists still in custody are accused of membership in PKK and of fomentation of hate through Press.




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Your Article:

Dilsat Aktas is a typical left-wing activist. In May the 29-year-old climbed onto an armoured police-carrier in Ankara to protest against the death of another activist, who had suffered a stroke after being sprayed with pepper gas in the Black Sea province of Hopa. Ms Aktas now hobbles around on crutches: the police clubbed her so hard as she tried to escape that they broke her left hip. “The doctor says it will take three years to fix,” she says, dragging on a cigarette.
Turkey and human rights: Home thoughts from abroad | The Economist

She's an Anarchist communist who damaged public-property (Police car).
This is her on pictures. Police tried to put her down, she resisted and 1 Policeman broke her rip.
Go and Occupy Wall-Street, but leave Public-Property alone.

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US criticizes 'human rights violations' in Turkey
Unlawful killings, poor prison conditions, excessively long trials and limits on freedom of expression are among the alleged human-rights violations in Turkey that the U.S. State Department denounced in a recent report.

“Security forces committed unlawful killings; the number of arrests and prosecutions in these cases was low compared to the number of incidents, and convictions remained rare,” the State Department said late Friday in the section devoted to Turkey in its annual report on the status of human rights throughout the world.

U.S. officials also commented on the recent arrests of Turkish journalists, which came too late to be included in this report, saying they would be monitored and addressed in next year’s survey.

During the year human-rights organizations reported cases of torture, beatings and abuse by security forces. Prison conditions improved but remained poor, with overcrowding and insufficient staff training,” the State Department said in its 2010 human-rights report.

“The overly close relationship between judges and prosecutors continued to hinder the right to a fair trial. Excessively long trials were a problem. The government limited freedom of expression through the use of constitutional restrictions and numerous laws,” the State Department said.

“Press freedom declined during the year. There were limitations on Internet freedom. Courts and an independent board ordered telecommunications providers to block access to Web sites on numerous occasions,” it said in the report. “Violence against women, including honor killings and rape, remained a widespread problem.”

US criticizes 'human rights violations' in Turkey - Hurriyet Daily News
 
In 2003 she already got beaten by Police when she protested Colin Powel's visit in Ankara,
She's member of Maoist Communist Party.
www.amnesty.eu/static/documents/Turkey.doc

8 years later and she still is a "student".
She should grow up, finish her education and find a purpose in life.
 
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In 2003 she already got beaten by Police when she protested Colin Powel's visit in Ankara,
She's member of Maoist Communist Party.
www.amnesty.eu/static/documents/Turkey.doc

8 years later and she still is a "student".
She should grow up, finish her education and find a purpose in life.


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An' Granny says `sides dat dey need to be sendin' her dat 2nd stimulus check...
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10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free
Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret evidence and torture.
Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?

While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of “free,” but the United States now has much more in common with such regimes than anyone may like to admit.

These countries also have constitutions that purport to guarantee freedoms and rights. But their governments have broad discretion in denying those rights and few real avenues for challenges by citizens — precisely the problem with the new laws in this country. The list of powers acquired by the U.S. government since 9/11 puts us in rather troubling company.

Assassination of U.S. citizens

President Obama has claimed, as President George W. Bush did before him, the right to order the killing of any citizen considered a terrorist or an abettor of terrorism. Last year, he approved the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaqi and another citizen under this claimed inherent authority. Last month, administration officials affirmed that power, stating that the president can order the assassination of any citizen whom he considers allied with terrorists. (Nations such as Nigeria, Iran and Syria have been routinely criticized for extrajudicial killings of enemies of the state.)

Indefinite detention
 
Turkey has been drifting towards fundamentalist islam for awhile so none of this is suprising. The people want it this way as it's a democratically controlled drift.
 
Turkey has been drifting towards fundamentalist islam for awhile so none of this is suprising. The people want it this way as it's a democratically controlled drift.

Well..let's see.

Turkey was like "Hey..don't attack Iraq..it's going to create chaos on our border". Iraq attacked, chaos ensues..bombs start going off all over Turkey. And guess what? It's the PKK..which is being funded and supported by the US through blackwater.

Good job boys.

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That really has nothing to do with Turkey's deteriorating record on human rights. The Turkish people have been dissatisfied with the leadership's record of secularism, tolerance for other religions and multiculturalism. Turkey wanted to be inclusive to join NATO. The islamic people were having none of it. They want a fundamental islamic nation. Naturally the more fundamentalist it becomes, the worse their record on human rights. It's all very democratic. Or, don't you like democracy?
 

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