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TURKEY 2004 2003 2002 2001 THROUGH 2000	Home Page Countries Organizations Special Issues Publications Links Profile Communication The Greek Human Rights Web Pages Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations calls on Turkey to remove criminal defamation and insult laws WPFC/IFEX 24/11/2004 Insufficient and inadequate -- judicial remedies against torturers and killers AI 16/11/2004 RSF releases "Third Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index" RSF/IFEX 27/10/2004 RSF raises concerns about press freedom situation; journalist held for 12 hours at Istanbul anti-terrorist police headquarters RSF/IFEX 20/10/2004 IPA calls for amendment to Penal Code to allow for free expression on Armenian genocide IPA/IFEX 06/10/2004 Turkey fully deserves negotiations for EU accession, says Terry Davis CoE 06/10/2004 Progress on Human Rights Key to EU Bid HRW 04/10/2004 Simple Steps to Root Out Torture: Increased Police Supervision Could Deliver Rapid Results HRW 22/09/2004 Government Transparency Under Scrutiny in Southeast Europe Justice Initiative 06/09/2004 Chamber hearing Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey ECHR 02/09/2004 Women Are Against Virginity Tests Bianet 26/08/2004 Local radio station suspended for one month RSF/IFEX 25/08/2004 Wiesenthal Centre Urges Turkey to Condemn Antisemitic Article... SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE 23/08/2004 New human rights journal available online (includes articles on Roma and Turkey) EHRR 11/08/2004 IPA concerned about dangers threatening publishers in lead up to consideration of Turkey's membership in the EU IPA/IFEX 23/07/2004 692 People Tortured in The First Half of 2004 Bianet 22/07/2004 OMCT launches its publication "Violence Against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2003" (including Turkey) OMCT 07/07/2004 Human Rights Watch says headscarf ban stifles academic freedom HRW/IFEX 29/06/2004 Council of Europe parliamentarians vote to end monitoring of Turkey CoE 22/06/2004 EU Bid Hinges on Further Rights Reforms HRW 15/06/2004 Writers in Prison Committee calls for journalist's release WiPC/IFEX 14/06/2004 Peter Schieder welcomes release in Turkey of former parliamentari ans Leyla Zana, Selim Sadak, Hatip Dicle and Orhan Dogan CoE 10/06/2004 Released prisoners of conscience should face no further trial AI 09/06/2004 Mass arrests of pro-Kurdish journalists ahead of NATO summit RSF/IFEX 09/06/2004 Grand Chamber Heraing: Ocalan v. Turkey ECHR 09/06/2004 Languages Other than Turkish on TV and Radio Bianet 08/06/2004 Law reforms regarding human rights and press freedom can set example for muslim world, says WAN president WAN/IFEX 04/06/2004 Interim Resolution in freedom of expression cases concerning Turkey CoE 02/06/2004 Violence originating in the family AI 02/06/2004 Amnesty International Annual Report on Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey AI 28/05/2004 ECHR June 2004 Hearings on Ocalan v. Turkey and Makaratzis v. Greece CoE 28/05/2004 Gays & Lesbians Urge for Equality Before Law - Radio Anchor Detained for Quoting Ocalan Bianet 28/05/2004 Journalist sentenced to 15 months in prison; newspaper given heavy fine RSF/IFEX 26/05/2004 Inquiry Against Kurdish "Thank You" Bianet 19/05/2004 Saturday Mothers Demand Justice Bianet 18/05/2004 Teacher Sent on Exile Because of Kurdish Poem Bianet 17/05/2004 The Turkish Parliament and the Council of Europe discuss setting up an Ombudsman in Turkey CoE 10/05/2004 Curbs on Assembly Undermine EU Bid HRW 28/04/2004 The FIDH expresses dismay at the conviction of Leyla Zana and three former Kurdish deputies FIDH 22/04/2004 Sadak, Zana, Dicle and Dogan should be released pending outcome of appeals, says Chair of Committee of Ministers CoE 22/04/2004 Peter Schieder deplores Ankara state security court decision on Leyla Zana and three other former parliamentarians CoE 22/04/2004 Injustice continues despite welcome reforms AI 21/04/2004 Case TUR 150404 - serious risks to the personal integrity of torture victim Mr Selahattin �ge and of Mr Sidik �zen OMCT 15/04/2004 Beatings and arrests in relation with local elections (Case TUR 050404) OMCT 05/04/2004 CJFE concerned over recent police attack on journalists CJFE/IFEX 31/03/2004 Police assault nine journalists in Diyarbakir RSF/IFEX 30/03/2004 Honouring of obligations and commitments by Turkey PACE 22/03/2004 Minority Rights Group International - e-bulletin - March 2004 (on Serbia, Montenegro and Turkey) MRGI 20/03/2004 IHD - 77 Women were Killed by Relatives in 2003 Bianet 09/03/2004 The Arrest Warrant Against Editor Ozg�den Bianet 04/03/2004 Rights Progress Marred in Key Year for EU Bid HRW 03/03/2004 Council of Europe's Committee for the prevention of torture report on visit to Ocalan in Turkish prison CoE 25/02/2004 Members of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey sentenced to prison Observatoire 16/02/2004 Roma Rights 4/2003: Political Rights of Roma (concerns Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey) ERRC 12/02/2004 Alvaro Gil Robles: Enlargement will alter the human rights landscape in the EU - Reports on new member states CoE 12/02/2004 Rejecting old practices, abiding by new standards AI 12/02/2004 Homosexuals Criticize "Statue Protest" Bianet 11/02/2004 Human rights defenders still targeted AI 09/02/2004 Trial of Human Rights Actvists Observatoire 30/01/2004 Diyarbakir Bar Opens Case against Broadcast Regulation Bianet 27/01/2004 Radio Journalist Charged for Prison Stories Bianet 23/01/2004 Police Detain "Runaway" Reporters BIANET 22/01/2004 Trial against the Turkish NGO "G�C-DER" before the Istanbul State Security Court Observatoire 21/01/2004 European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence on freedom of religion (concerns Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey) MINELRES 10/01/2004 Journalist given one-year jail sentence for "insulting Parliament" RSF/IFEX 08/01/2004 Hearing postponed: Do�an and others v . Turkey (seminal case of village evictions) ECHR 08/01/2004
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