Turkey and Armenia: genocide? what genocide?
By JOHN LUBBOCK* opendemocracy.net April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire. Erdoğan hopes he [more >>>]
Month: February 2015
Azerbaijan: OSCE PA’s Santos decries continuing threats to civil society and journalists, renews request for visits
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Press Release COPENHAGEN, 26 February 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, [more >>>]
What Is the EU’s Game in the Caucasus Separatist Territories?
By PAUL RIMPLE* eurasianet.org The European Union is making a push to raise its profile in two trouble spots in the South Caucasus, Abkhazia and [more >>>]
BOA admits Azerbaijan pays for British team to compete in European Games
By OWEN GIBSON The Guardian The British Olympic Association has admitted that organisers of the first European Games in Baku, under attack from human rights [more >>>]
Commissioner Muižnieks intervenes in cases concerning Azerbaijan before the European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights Today, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, published written observations submitted to the European [more >>>]
Azerbaijan/EU: Use Official Visit to Free Activists
Human Rights Watch (Brussels) – The European Union special representative for human rights should use his visit to Azerbaijan beginning February 23, 2015, to insist [more >>>]
Turkey ‘created a monster and doesn’t know how to deal with it’
By MICHAEL B KELLEY Business Insider Turkey’s notoriously lax border policies during the Syrian war are starting to catch up with Ankara and its allies [more >>>]
Turkey Ranks #3 in Violations Against Musicians’ Rights
BIA News Desk Freemuse monitored and documented violations of freedom of expression for musicians on www.freemuse.org in 2014. Musicians around the world are facing imprisonment, [more >>>]
ECHR Rejects Turkey’s Motion on Mandatory Religion Classes
BIA News Desk The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected Turkey’s motion on the ruling that urged Turkey to remove mandatory religion classes in [more >>>]
Turkey’s Blasphemy Barometer
By PIOTR ZALEWSKI Foreign Affairs Sacrificing Free Speech in Istanbul In mid-January, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu marched alongside other world leaders in Paris to [more >>>]