Azerbaijan cracks down while chairing Council of Europe
By RAYHAN DEMYTRIE* BBC News “We are the last of the Mohicans,” says Leila Alieva. “First the government weakened the opposition, then targeted independent media, [more >>>]
Month: October 2014
The Responsibility of a Politician: Leyla Yunus and the Heirs of Andrei Sakharov
By THOMAS DE WAAL* European Stability Initiative (ESI) Dear Colleague, In 1989 during some of the most tumultuous days of perestroika, Andrei Sakharov stood up [more >>>]
The Definition of Political Prisoner
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Written question No. 667 to the Committee of Ministers by Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, Group of the European People’s [more >>>]
Capturing the News
By JACOB WEISBERG Slate President Erdogan’s new style of media censorship is less brutal—and much more effective. As recently as last year, Turkey ranked as [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: Journalist and political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva threatened
PEN International PEN International is deeply concerned by the news that journalist and political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva is being subjected to a growing campaign of [more >>>]
SOS: Dispatches from Azerbaijan
By ARZU GEYBULLAYEVA Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso The #Caviardiplomacy continues to be successful. The alarm messages arriving from Azerbaijan on the systematic violation of human [more >>>]
New Curbs on Conflict Zone Reporting in Azerbaijan
By SEYMUR KAZIMOV Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), CRS Issue 754 Authorities accuse reporters of misrepresenting facts and revealing sensitive information. Azerbaijani journalists [more >>>]
Sukhumi-Tbilisi Railway Revisited
By LEVON NIKOLYAN New Eastern Europe After two decades of silence, in 2012 the new Georgian government provoked some talks about re-opening the railway stretching [more >>>]
Time has come for a clear change in the EU’s policy towards Azerbaijan
Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) Future European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy was questioned about the EU’s stand on human rights in Azerbaijan, amongst [more >>>]
Who Lost Turkey?
By DANIEL PIPES The Weekly Standard An ally goes rogue. Only 12 years ago, the Republic of Turkey was correctly seen as the model [more >>>]