Turkey: Arbitrary arrest of İHD Chairperson Ali Tanrıverdi

Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister, Turkey, receptayyip.erdogan@basbakanlik.gov.tr Dear Prime Minister, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I came to know that OMCT has been informed by reliable sources about the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Ali Tanrıverdi, Chairperson of the Mersin Branch of the Human Rights Association (İnsan Haklari Derneği – İHD). [...]

Turkish court indicts Israeli military leaders in absentia

A Turkish criminal court this week indicted four Israeli military leaders in absentia for their alleged killing of nine Turkish citizens during the Free Gaza Flotilla in 2010, a police source in Israel told the Law Enforcement Examiner. The indictment affidavit from Istanbul prosecutor Mehmet Ekinci was given to the court last week and its [...]

Tension between Iraq and Turkey after Erdoğan criticised Al-Maliki

Tension between Iraq and Turkey mounted on Monday other after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticised the Iraqi government led by Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite bloc a few days earlier.Iraq’s deputy foreign minister summoned the Turkish envoy in Baghdad, Yunus Demirer, on Monday to call on Turkey to consider the “necessity of avoiding anything that [...]

Turkish Child Gang Rape Case Causes Outrage

Outrage in Turkey over the verdict of a rape case is being heard following the verdict by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals (Turkey’s highest court). The case involved alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2002, for which the court has ruled that the child had consented to sex with her 26 accused [...]

Israel: convergence of domestic and foreign policy crisis?

DOMESTIC PROBLEMS: During the summer of 2011, Israel, which promotes itself as a ‘democratic’ nation surrounded by authoritarian regimes, faced massive popular protests against the economic policies of the conservative coalition government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. One explanation is that the Arab Spring has infected the ‘Israeli Summer’ civil disobedience protests. Another explanation is that [...]

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