content tagged with democratic initiative

Women's Rights Defender İlkkaracan: We Insist on Our Requests

DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE MEETINGS

Women's Rights Defender İlkkaracan: We Insist on Our Requests

Prime Minister Erdoğan met with 80 representatives of women organizations in Istanbul to discuss the democratic initiative. Women's rights advocator İlkkaracan and other participants criticized that the Prime Minister dismissed all proposals put forward by the women.

20 July 2010 Semra Pelek

Multicultural Yaşam Radio Gives Message of Peace

Multicultural Yaşam Radio Gives Message of Peace

The Istanbul Yaşam Radio presented the variety of its programs at a cocktail organized to make the radio staff meet with listeners and the media. Yaşam Radio broadcasts in Turkish and in minority languages and stands for a democratic initiative which includes the Kurds, Armenians and Alevis.

18 March 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Killed for Singing a Kurdish Folk Song

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

Killed for Singing a Kurdish Folk Song

Young man Emrah Gezer was killed because of a Kurdish folk song. Kurdish politicians and artists experience backlashes for using the Kurdish language despite the easing of regulations in the context of the democratic initiative.

22 February 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Human Rights Watch: New Constitution As a Priority for Turkey

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

Human Rights Watch: New Constitution As a Priority for Turkey

Human Rights Watch has issued the World Report 2010. The organization says that obstacles to change in Turkey remain clear, e.g. the constitution that disregards human rights or the struggle to assert civilian control over the military.

26 January 2010 Tolga Korkut

Director Çetin Urges Politicians to "Stop the War"

Director Çetin Urges Politicians to "Stop the War"

Turkish director Sinan Çetin addressed the Prime Minister and other politicians at the openening of an exhibition: "People with Turkish Ids are dying. You have the power, solve it, sir..."

7 January 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

İHD: Democratic Society Party Essential for Democratic Initiative

DTP CLOSURE CASE

İHD: Democratic Society Party Essential for Democratic Initiative

The Human Rights Foundation claimed that the Constitutional Court should consider the "general public opinion" for a decision in the closure case of the Democratic Society Party. The foundation called for more transparency and the end of violence.

9 December 2009 Tolga Korkut

Children's Rights Should Become Part of the "Democratic Initiative"

CONVENTION OF THE RIGHTS FOR THE CHILD

Children's Rights Should Become Part of the "Democratic Initiative"

Children's rights defender Arkadaş criticizes Turkey's reservations on the Convention of the Rights of the Child, saying that the children's rights are violated by the reservations. Children's rights defenders urge the government to include the issue into the "democratic initiative" soon.

20 November 2009 Tolga Korkut

IPI Condemns Investigation of Journalist and Actress

IPI Condemns Investigation of Journalist and Actress

The International Press Institute is urging the Turkish government to halt the investigation into journalist Devrim Sevimay and actress Hülya Avşar over an interview in the Milliyet newspaper.

30 September 2009

Challenge for Infamous Prosecutor: BIA Quotes Avşar Interview

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Challenge for Infamous Prosecutor: BIA Quotes Avşar Interview

Bakırköy Public Prosecutor Ali Çakır's investigation against Hülya Avşar and Devrim Sevimay has nothing to do with "justice". This abuse of public power under the pretense of the "Kurdish Initiative" is nothing else but mobbing against the two women. We are protesting.

23 September 2009

Erdoğan: Conflicts Will Not Block the Peace Process

GOVERNMENT'S DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE

Erdoğan: Conflicts Will Not Block the Peace Process

After conflicts between soldiers and PKK militants the Prime Minister said: "The bullets shot to our soldiers will not block this process. We will continue the peace process". He also declared to ask CHP for an official appointment.

10 September 2009 Tolga Korkut