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by christos1 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:07 pm
A Murdered Turkish Cypriot Columnist
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/11365
November 23, 2002 By Eser Keskiner
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As any attention of the international community is focused on the negotiations to find a solution to the Cyprus problem by the end of the year, the European Court of Human Rights is coming closer to announcing its verdict on a case that has drawn much attention, at least among Cypriots. The case against Turkey is that of Mrs Adali, the widow of well-known Turkish Cypriot author and journalist Kutlu Adali who was assassinated in 1996.
While Turkey has had several charges brought against it in the ECHR regarding its current occupation of northern Cyprus, the case of Mrs Adali is one of the few examples in which a Turkish Cypriot is charging Turkey for major human rights violations in the part of the island it controls with the pretext of ensuring the safety of the Turkish Cypriots (another notable pending case is that of Mr Ahmet An).
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/11365
November 23, 2002 By Eser Keskiner
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As any attention of the international community is focused on the negotiations to find a solution to the Cyprus problem by the end of the year, the European Court of Human Rights is coming closer to announcing its verdict on a case that has drawn much attention, at least among Cypriots. The case against Turkey is that of Mrs Adali, the widow of well-known Turkish Cypriot author and journalist Kutlu Adali who was assassinated in 1996.
While Turkey has had several charges brought against it in the ECHR regarding its current occupation of northern Cyprus, the case of Mrs Adali is one of the few examples in which a Turkish Cypriot is charging Turkey for major human rights violations in the part of the island it controls with the pretext of ensuring the safety of the Turkish Cypriots (another notable pending case is that of Mr Ahmet An).
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by christos1 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:08 pm
TURKEY: CONVERTS CHARGED UNDER SPEECH LAW
Two former Muslims accused of insulting ‘Turkishness’ and Islam.
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Hakan and Turan
Turan Topal and Hakan Tastan
October 31 (Compass Direct News) – A Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of “insulting Turkishness,” inciting hatred against Islam and secretly compiling data on private citizens for a local Bible correspondence course.
Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, joined the ranks of 97 other Turkish citizens hauled into court in the last 16 months over alleged violations of the country’s controversial Article 301 restricting freedom of speech.
Haydar Polat, attorney for the two Christians, said a state prosecutor in the Silivri Criminal Court filed a formal indictment against his clients on October 12. If convicted, the accused men could be sentenced from six months up to three years in prison.
The first hearing for the trial, which Polat said could be expected to continue for a year or more, is set for November 23 in Silivri, 45 miles west of Istanbul along the Marmara Sea coast.
Citing articles 301, 216 and 135 of the Turkish penal code, the indictment accused the defendants of approaching grade school children and high school students in Silivri and attempting to convert them to Christianity.
According to the written charges, the three plaintiffs, identified as 23-year-old Fatih Kose, 16-year-old Alper and Oguz, 17, claimed the two Christians had called Islam a “primitive and fabricated religion” and had described Turks as a “cursed people.”
They also accused the defendants of opposing the Turkish military, encouraging sexual misconduct and procuring funds from abroad to entice young people in Silivri to become Christians. Tastan and Topal deny all charges.
Gendarme Raid
It was not until the morning of October 11, when two carloads of gendarme officials appeared with a search warrant at Tastan’s home at 8 a.m., that either of the men knew they were under investigation.
The officers informed Tastan that a complaint had been made against him claiming he had unlicensed guns and was conducting illegal missionary activities. While Tastan and his wife and two small children looked on, the search team spent two hours combing their apartment in Buyukcekmece, on the western outskirts of Istanbul.
“Now let’s go to your office and find Turan,” the soldiers told Tastan, instructing him to call Topal and ask him to stay at the office until he arrived, without explaining why. Surprised that they knew his office address and the name of his office partner, Tastan later learned that a Silivri prosecutor had given the gendarme written permission to follow, photograph and secretly tape them for one month.
After searching the small bureau in Istanbul’s Taksim district, the gendarme confiscated two computers and an array of books and papers. They then loaded the two Christians into their vehicles and drove them back to Silvri.
After hours of interrogation by military intelligence officials, the two men were released for the night and ordered to return the next morning to complete the investigation. By the end of October 12, they had recorded their formal statements before the prosecutor.
Both men said they had categorically denied all the accusations against them. The charges are apparently based on three or four trips they had made to Silivri months ago to meet a teacher and several high school students who had contacted an Istanbul-based Bible correspondence course requesting a visit.
“It’s all lies,” Topal told Compass. “Someone is trying to make us look like a Christian tarikat [banned religious sect].” He said one of the gendarme officials told him he was accused of having weapons, forming illegal cell groups, evangelizing children and trying to destroy the secular state of Turkey.
Topal, who became a Christian 17 years ago, said he told the gendarme interrogators that he was innocent, “but I am doing missionary work. I am a Christian evangelist, and I don’t deny that. So you can put me in jail for that, if you want. But you know what I’m doing is not against the law.”
A Christian for 12 years, Tastan said he told the prosecutor, “I am a Christian, and I am a Turk. I will keep on sharing my faith. We are not ashamed to be Christians, and we are not hiding anything.”
Tastan said he worked part-time at a printing house and gave the rest of his time to Christian ministry.
Sensational Media Spin
Just four days after the two were released, the mass-circulation Hurriyet newspaper on October 16 gave front-page coverage to the Silivri investigation under the headline, “Gendarme raid missionary office.”
Declaring that parents of Silivri students had complained that the two men were promoting missionary activities among grade school students, the article claimed that their office, linked with the Taksim Protestant Church, had compiled names and detailed private data on 5,000 citizens in Turkey’s Marmara region.
Topal said the claims were absurd, but news clips based on the Hurriyet release were broadcast that same day on TGRT television and the local TV music channel.
The next morning, an article in the Islamic Zaman newspaper linked the Christians’ arrest and interrogations with a Turkish draft-dodger who had two weeks before hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane flying from Albania to Istanbul. Claiming he was a Christian and a conscientious objector, Izmir-born Hakan Ekinci had appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for asylum.
According to Zaman, “… it was confirmed that the hijacker had ties with Tastan and Topal.” The October 17 article stated that the men had confessed in their formal statements that they knew Ekinci and that he had led missionary activities for the Turkish Protestant Church in the Aegean region of the country.
After examining the legal file against Tastan and Topal, Isa Karatas, spokesman for the Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey, commented, “There is no legal proof. It only contains verbal allegations, without any evidence.”
Karatas told Compass he considered it “a violation of democratic rights” for the gendarme team to raid and search a private home and office “without a single piece of evidence – and then pass on this destructive and unsubstantiated information to the media.”
SIDEBAR
Turkey Hits Impasse with EU over Freedom of Expression
October 31 (Compass Direct News) – Last week the European Union (EU) reiterated its demands that Turkey either amend or scrap Article 301, which prohibits “insulting Turkishness.”
EU critics complain that the law fails to define “Turkishness,” allowing prosecutors to issue widely varying legal interpretations in a rash of cases against journalists, novelists, professors and other intellectuals. Turkey instituted Article 301 in June 2005 as part of the country’s package of reform laws to facilitate the overwhelmingly Muslim nation’s entry into the EU.
According to Turkish media reports, Rene van der Linden, chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, suggested in a meeting Thursday (October 26) with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul that Europe’s objections to Article 301 could outweigh even the unresolved dispute over Turkey’s refusal to open its seaports and airports to traffic from EU member Greek Cyprus.
But Ankara insists that the issue focuses on “implementation” of the law, arguing that the courts have yet to send anyone to jail for alleged speech restriction violations.
Although several prominent defendants have been acquitted, including this year’s Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, dozens of trials are still pending in the courts. A number of cases focus on comments regarding the Turkish state’s denial of what it terms the “alleged genocide” of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
Another acquittal was handed down in May to two professors who prepared a controversial report for a parliamentary sub-commission regarding minority and cultural rights. The report maintained that non-Muslims in particular were subject to discrimination in Turkey and sometimes treated as foreigners rather than equal Turkish citizens.
Accused by nationalists of being treasonous, the report was disowned by the government and never published.
This week still another Article 301 case opens, as a 92-year-old academic expert on Sumerian civilization appears in court tomorrow (November 1) for comments deemed “offensive” to both Turkish identity and Islam in her latest book.
An attorney in Izmir who was offended by Muazzez Ilmiye Cig’s interpretation of the origins of the Muslim headscarf opened a lawsuit against the historian and her editor, accusing them of denigrating Turkish identity and provoking religious hatred.
In the volume published last year, Cig wrote that the headscarf – an explosive political symbol for Turkey’s conservative Islamic party government – was first worn in the Middle East by Sumerian religious prostitutes.
“Knowledge cannot be put on trial,” Cig told Cumhuriyet newspaper on Saturday (October 28). “But if everyone in a country stays quiet, everything is possible.”
Two former Muslims accused of insulting ‘Turkishness’ and Islam.
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display ... &backpage=
Hakan and Turan
Turan Topal and Hakan Tastan
October 31 (Compass Direct News) – A Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of “insulting Turkishness,” inciting hatred against Islam and secretly compiling data on private citizens for a local Bible correspondence course.
Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, joined the ranks of 97 other Turkish citizens hauled into court in the last 16 months over alleged violations of the country’s controversial Article 301 restricting freedom of speech.
Haydar Polat, attorney for the two Christians, said a state prosecutor in the Silivri Criminal Court filed a formal indictment against his clients on October 12. If convicted, the accused men could be sentenced from six months up to three years in prison.
The first hearing for the trial, which Polat said could be expected to continue for a year or more, is set for November 23 in Silivri, 45 miles west of Istanbul along the Marmara Sea coast.
Citing articles 301, 216 and 135 of the Turkish penal code, the indictment accused the defendants of approaching grade school children and high school students in Silivri and attempting to convert them to Christianity.
According to the written charges, the three plaintiffs, identified as 23-year-old Fatih Kose, 16-year-old Alper and Oguz, 17, claimed the two Christians had called Islam a “primitive and fabricated religion” and had described Turks as a “cursed people.”
They also accused the defendants of opposing the Turkish military, encouraging sexual misconduct and procuring funds from abroad to entice young people in Silivri to become Christians. Tastan and Topal deny all charges.
Gendarme Raid
It was not until the morning of October 11, when two carloads of gendarme officials appeared with a search warrant at Tastan’s home at 8 a.m., that either of the men knew they were under investigation.
The officers informed Tastan that a complaint had been made against him claiming he had unlicensed guns and was conducting illegal missionary activities. While Tastan and his wife and two small children looked on, the search team spent two hours combing their apartment in Buyukcekmece, on the western outskirts of Istanbul.
“Now let’s go to your office and find Turan,” the soldiers told Tastan, instructing him to call Topal and ask him to stay at the office until he arrived, without explaining why. Surprised that they knew his office address and the name of his office partner, Tastan later learned that a Silivri prosecutor had given the gendarme written permission to follow, photograph and secretly tape them for one month.
After searching the small bureau in Istanbul’s Taksim district, the gendarme confiscated two computers and an array of books and papers. They then loaded the two Christians into their vehicles and drove them back to Silvri.
After hours of interrogation by military intelligence officials, the two men were released for the night and ordered to return the next morning to complete the investigation. By the end of October 12, they had recorded their formal statements before the prosecutor.
Both men said they had categorically denied all the accusations against them. The charges are apparently based on three or four trips they had made to Silivri months ago to meet a teacher and several high school students who had contacted an Istanbul-based Bible correspondence course requesting a visit.
“It’s all lies,” Topal told Compass. “Someone is trying to make us look like a Christian tarikat [banned religious sect].” He said one of the gendarme officials told him he was accused of having weapons, forming illegal cell groups, evangelizing children and trying to destroy the secular state of Turkey.
Topal, who became a Christian 17 years ago, said he told the gendarme interrogators that he was innocent, “but I am doing missionary work. I am a Christian evangelist, and I don’t deny that. So you can put me in jail for that, if you want. But you know what I’m doing is not against the law.”
A Christian for 12 years, Tastan said he told the prosecutor, “I am a Christian, and I am a Turk. I will keep on sharing my faith. We are not ashamed to be Christians, and we are not hiding anything.”
Tastan said he worked part-time at a printing house and gave the rest of his time to Christian ministry.
Sensational Media Spin
Just four days after the two were released, the mass-circulation Hurriyet newspaper on October 16 gave front-page coverage to the Silivri investigation under the headline, “Gendarme raid missionary office.”
Declaring that parents of Silivri students had complained that the two men were promoting missionary activities among grade school students, the article claimed that their office, linked with the Taksim Protestant Church, had compiled names and detailed private data on 5,000 citizens in Turkey’s Marmara region.
Topal said the claims were absurd, but news clips based on the Hurriyet release were broadcast that same day on TGRT television and the local TV music channel.
The next morning, an article in the Islamic Zaman newspaper linked the Christians’ arrest and interrogations with a Turkish draft-dodger who had two weeks before hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane flying from Albania to Istanbul. Claiming he was a Christian and a conscientious objector, Izmir-born Hakan Ekinci had appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for asylum.
According to Zaman, “… it was confirmed that the hijacker had ties with Tastan and Topal.” The October 17 article stated that the men had confessed in their formal statements that they knew Ekinci and that he had led missionary activities for the Turkish Protestant Church in the Aegean region of the country.
After examining the legal file against Tastan and Topal, Isa Karatas, spokesman for the Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey, commented, “There is no legal proof. It only contains verbal allegations, without any evidence.”
Karatas told Compass he considered it “a violation of democratic rights” for the gendarme team to raid and search a private home and office “without a single piece of evidence – and then pass on this destructive and unsubstantiated information to the media.”
SIDEBAR
Turkey Hits Impasse with EU over Freedom of Expression
October 31 (Compass Direct News) – Last week the European Union (EU) reiterated its demands that Turkey either amend or scrap Article 301, which prohibits “insulting Turkishness.”
EU critics complain that the law fails to define “Turkishness,” allowing prosecutors to issue widely varying legal interpretations in a rash of cases against journalists, novelists, professors and other intellectuals. Turkey instituted Article 301 in June 2005 as part of the country’s package of reform laws to facilitate the overwhelmingly Muslim nation’s entry into the EU.
According to Turkish media reports, Rene van der Linden, chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, suggested in a meeting Thursday (October 26) with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul that Europe’s objections to Article 301 could outweigh even the unresolved dispute over Turkey’s refusal to open its seaports and airports to traffic from EU member Greek Cyprus.
But Ankara insists that the issue focuses on “implementation” of the law, arguing that the courts have yet to send anyone to jail for alleged speech restriction violations.
Although several prominent defendants have been acquitted, including this year’s Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, dozens of trials are still pending in the courts. A number of cases focus on comments regarding the Turkish state’s denial of what it terms the “alleged genocide” of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
Another acquittal was handed down in May to two professors who prepared a controversial report for a parliamentary sub-commission regarding minority and cultural rights. The report maintained that non-Muslims in particular were subject to discrimination in Turkey and sometimes treated as foreigners rather than equal Turkish citizens.
Accused by nationalists of being treasonous, the report was disowned by the government and never published.
This week still another Article 301 case opens, as a 92-year-old academic expert on Sumerian civilization appears in court tomorrow (November 1) for comments deemed “offensive” to both Turkish identity and Islam in her latest book.
An attorney in Izmir who was offended by Muazzez Ilmiye Cig’s interpretation of the origins of the Muslim headscarf opened a lawsuit against the historian and her editor, accusing them of denigrating Turkish identity and provoking religious hatred.
In the volume published last year, Cig wrote that the headscarf – an explosive political symbol for Turkey’s conservative Islamic party government – was first worn in the Middle East by Sumerian religious prostitutes.
“Knowledge cannot be put on trial,” Cig told Cumhuriyet newspaper on Saturday (October 28). “But if everyone in a country stays quiet, everything is possible.”
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by Oracle » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:09 pm
Top Marks to christos1 for posting relevant material regarding the one and only illegal enemy occupant of Cyprus .... the tyrannical Turkey!
The fantasy fairy insan is lost in the EU woods discussing some other fellow EU member .... Totally irrelevant to the illegal occupation of Cyprus.
The fantasy fairy insan is lost in the EU woods discussing some other fellow EU member .... Totally irrelevant to the illegal occupation of Cyprus.
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by insan » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:09 pm
European Policy Centre Website - [ Bu sayfanın çevirisini yap ]The first such case was Serif v Greece in 1999, where the ECHR ruled against the Greek state after it convicted Ibraim Serif for assuming the role of Mufti ...
www.epc.eu/en/er.asp?AI=559&LV=293&PG=E ... &see=y&t=2
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by christos1 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:09 pm
http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/print/?nid=28036
ECHR obliges Turkey to pay compensation to Istanbul-based Armenian foundations
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the property rights of two Armenian foundations in Istanbul.
The Board of Governors of the Samatya Surp Kevork Armenian Church, School and Cemetery and the Foundation for the Armenian Hospital in Yedikule appealed to the Strasbourg-based court claiming the decision taken by Turkish courts setting aside their title to property acquired as a donation, violated their property rights under the European Human Rights Convention.
The two Armenian foundations were established by Imperial Decree in 1832 under the Ottoman Empire and founded under modern Turkish law.
According to the ruling, Turkey must return the titles of all properties to each foundation and pay compensation of 600,000 euro to the Samatya Foundation and 275,000 euro to the Yedikule Foundation.
The charter of both foundations complies with the provisions of the Lausanne Treaty affording protection to foundations that provide public services for religious minorities.
The ECHR said Turkey had violated the protection of property rights defined under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the convention, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
ECHR obliges Turkey to pay compensation to Istanbul-based Armenian foundations
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the property rights of two Armenian foundations in Istanbul.
The Board of Governors of the Samatya Surp Kevork Armenian Church, School and Cemetery and the Foundation for the Armenian Hospital in Yedikule appealed to the Strasbourg-based court claiming the decision taken by Turkish courts setting aside their title to property acquired as a donation, violated their property rights under the European Human Rights Convention.
The two Armenian foundations were established by Imperial Decree in 1832 under the Ottoman Empire and founded under modern Turkish law.
According to the ruling, Turkey must return the titles of all properties to each foundation and pay compensation of 600,000 euro to the Samatya Foundation and 275,000 euro to the Yedikule Foundation.
The charter of both foundations complies with the provisions of the Lausanne Treaty affording protection to foundations that provide public services for religious minorities.
The ECHR said Turkey had violated the protection of property rights defined under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the convention, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
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by christos1 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:11 pm
ECHR rules against Turkey in Greek Orthodox church case
http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/81141.html
05. March 2009. | 11:59
Source: EMportal, ANA
The Foundation of the Koimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church on the island of Tenedos (known in Turkish as Bozcaada) was vindicated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday in its case against Turkey.
The Foundation of the Koimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church on the island of Tenedos (known in Turkish as Bozcaada) was vindicated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday in its case against Turkey.
In a judgement posted on Tuesday, the court unanimously found that the rights of the "Bozcaada Kimisis Teodoku Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi Vakfi" (as the foundation is registered with Turkish authorities) had been violated when Turkish courts to register the immovable property of the applicant foundation in the land register in its name.
Specifically, the court held that there had been a violation of article 1 of Protocol 1 (protection of property) of the European Convention of Human Rights by Turkey and awarded compensation of 100,000 euros to the foundation in pecuniary damages and a further 5,000 euros for costs and expenses.
The case concerns three plots of land and a chapel that the foundation acquired through donations or legacies.
http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/81141.html
05. March 2009. | 11:59
Source: EMportal, ANA
The Foundation of the Koimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church on the island of Tenedos (known in Turkish as Bozcaada) was vindicated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday in its case against Turkey.
The Foundation of the Koimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church on the island of Tenedos (known in Turkish as Bozcaada) was vindicated by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday in its case against Turkey.
In a judgement posted on Tuesday, the court unanimously found that the rights of the "Bozcaada Kimisis Teodoku Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi Vakfi" (as the foundation is registered with Turkish authorities) had been violated when Turkish courts to register the immovable property of the applicant foundation in the land register in its name.
Specifically, the court held that there had been a violation of article 1 of Protocol 1 (protection of property) of the European Convention of Human Rights by Turkey and awarded compensation of 100,000 euros to the foundation in pecuniary damages and a further 5,000 euros for costs and expenses.
The case concerns three plots of land and a chapel that the foundation acquired through donations or legacies.
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by insan » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:12 pm
Global Politician - Greek Human Rights Violations Against Its ... - [ Bu sayfanın çevirisini yap ]Greek Human Rights Violations Against Its Turkish Minority in Western Thrace. Bruce Fein - 3/24/2008. The United States Helsinki Commission, an independent ...
www.globalpolitician.com/24315-turkey-greece
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by christos1 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:13 pm
From the Turkish daily Hurriyet.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/dome ... .asp?scr=1
Euro court finds Turkey guilty twice
ISTANBUL - The European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, charged Turkey a total of 132,000 euros in compensation for two separate cases yesterday.
In January 2002, 18 students attending Kocatepe University in Afyon petitioned the university requesting the introduction of optional Kurdish language classes. The students were then suspended for two terms.
The local court found in favor of the university on the grounds that the students’ "petitions were likely to give rise to polarization on the basis of language, race, religion or denomination, and that they represented part of the PKK’s (outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party) new strategy of action of civil disobedience."
The ECHR sentenced Turkey to pay 1,500 euros to each student, deciding that the students were only expressing their views and not committing any reprehensible act, violence, or breaching the peace or order in the university.
In another decision announced yesterday, the ECHR found Turkey unjust and ordered Turkey pay a total of 105,000 euros on account of the refusal of the Turkish courts to register the property of the Foundation of the Bozcaada Kimisis Teodoku Greek Orthodox Church in the name of the church.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/dome ... .asp?scr=1
Euro court finds Turkey guilty twice
ISTANBUL - The European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, charged Turkey a total of 132,000 euros in compensation for two separate cases yesterday.
In January 2002, 18 students attending Kocatepe University in Afyon petitioned the university requesting the introduction of optional Kurdish language classes. The students were then suspended for two terms.
The local court found in favor of the university on the grounds that the students’ "petitions were likely to give rise to polarization on the basis of language, race, religion or denomination, and that they represented part of the PKK’s (outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party) new strategy of action of civil disobedience."
The ECHR sentenced Turkey to pay 1,500 euros to each student, deciding that the students were only expressing their views and not committing any reprehensible act, violence, or breaching the peace or order in the university.
In another decision announced yesterday, the ECHR found Turkey unjust and ordered Turkey pay a total of 105,000 euros on account of the refusal of the Turkish courts to register the property of the Foundation of the Bozcaada Kimisis Teodoku Greek Orthodox Church in the name of the church.
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