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In the year 2000, 11 F-type prisons were opened introducing cell system. The protests and hunger strikes resisting these prisons were started in October 2000 with around 1000 inmates and ended on 19 December 2000 when pressed down after a bloody operation during the transfer of the detainees and convicts …

Human Rights Center of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University and the Human Rights Joint Platform have organized a conference on Freedom of expression that will take place between 30th November – 2nd December in Ankara. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the new difficulties, with …

Freedom of Expression is the prerequisite for a democratic regime and the autonomy of the individual. It is the medium for breathing life and spirit in the approach and understanding that the ideas cannot be tested in an environment of fear and repression but rather in an environment of fearless …

"Law is not enough for freedom, changes in ideas are also must"   IHOP Steering Committee members  visited the president of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mr. Bulent Arınç in his office to inform him about the ongoing "Freedom of Expression Campaign" on 13 October 2006. The members of the …

Although important developments have been realized on the path of building mechanisms to prevent human rights violations through the last century, especially preventive mechanisms to eliminate collective violations committed under control of the legal or de facto holders of power, who are also state or non state actors, were underestimated; …

This is a period of time, in which the need for peace is felt more than ever throughout the world. A permanent and true PEACE can only be established with the pursuit of the craving of a world where everybody can live equally and freely.  The indispensable condition for the …

The fundamental issue is that the problems should be resolved using democratic and peaceful methods in a democratic country that has accepted rule of law. In the case that the use of armed forces will be unavoidable, the actions should be within the framework of law and the applications should …