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EU report on Turkey accession cites prosecution of critics as obstacle
Turkey's bid for EU membership still faces significant obstacles, including the slowing of reforms and laws inhibiting freedom of speech, according to report released by the European Commission Wednesday. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn (More) |
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Turkish PM hears suggestions on reforming state slander penal code provision
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [official website; BBC profile] met Sunday with representatives of nearly a dozen non-governmental organizations to discuss possible reforms to the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code, wh (More) |
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Turkish rights record to be focus of emergency EU-Turkey membership talks
Turkey's bid for European Union membership could be further damaged by an unreleased report on the country's human rights record, a draft version of which was obtained by the Independent. The report condemns Turkey's refusal to compromis (More) |
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Turkish PM says no plans to change state slander provision for EU bid
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [official website; BBC profile] has said that his government has no plans to abolish Article 301 of the country's penal code, despite warnings from the European Union that it infringes upon the free (More) |
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Senior US diplomat decries French genocide denial bill as senseless
US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried Friday condemned the passage of a bill [text, in French; JURIST news archive] last week by the French lower house of parliament making it a crime to deny that killings of Armenians in 1915 in the then-O (More) |
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Turkish veterans to sue France over World War I killings
A Turkish veterans association has announced that it will bring lawsuits before the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 6,317 Turks allegedly killed in the southern province of Gaziantep by French and Armenian troops when France occupied t (More) |
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Turkish broadcasters urge boycott of French programs to protest genocide bill
Turkey's broadcasting watchdog urged a boycott Wednesday of French television programs and movies to protest the French parliament's approval of a bill that criminalizes denial of an Armenian genocide . The board of directors of RTUK unan (More) |
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Turkish parliament condemns French Armenian genocide denial bill
The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning a French bill that criminalizes any refusal to characterize the WWI-era mass killings of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, but did not take any further retaliatory action. The bill p (More) |
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Chirac apologizes for Armenian genocide denial bill: Turkish PM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told fellow members of his country's ruling party Saturday that French President Jacques Chirac [official profile, in French; BBC profile] has apologized to him for the French National Assembly's (More) |
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EU decries passage of French bill on Armenian 'genocide' denial
The European Union (EU) Friday condemned passage of a French bill making it a crime punishable by imprisonment to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey during World War I was genocide. The bill passed France’s lower house on T (More) |
Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt born
Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist, womens' rights advocate and co-founder of the League of Women Voters, was born on January 9, 1859.
Visit the Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home.
