Free Nikol! & Judicial Scandal: A Test Case for Turkey
Free Nikol!
Nouritza Matossian, Free Speech Blog, UK, 2 December 2010
Last time I wrote about an Armenian newspaper editor who was abused and persecuted for exercising his right to free speech, it was Hrant Dink in Turkey, cruelly murdered for his courage and principles.
It is with horror that I am now writing to ring the alarm bell for another Armenian editor in Yerevan, Armenia.
Source URL: http://www.keghart.com/Matossian_Ni
Judicial Scandal: A Test Case for Turkey
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Global Research, December 12, 2010
Is Turkey making progress in the democratization process? Has the September referendum led to reform of the judiciary? Who really rules Turkey? These are some of the questions raised, albeit implicitly, by a recent court case in Istanbul which has become a cause célèbre.The case involves a Turkish-born German citizen, Dogan Akhanli, a former leftist opposition figure who had been imprisoned and tortured under the military coup regime in the 1980s. After his release and successful flight to Germany in 1991, he received refugee status and later citizenship. In the last twenty years he has lived with his wife and family in Cologne, working as a writer, translator, and social activist.
Source URL: http://www.keghart.com/Mirak_Weissbach_Akhanli
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