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  • Controversial human rights report released

    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    Nov. 1, 2004

    Controversial human rights report released

    The report prepared by the Prime Ministry Advisory Board was not
    acknowledged by the government.

    November 1 - The section of the Prime Ministry Advisory Board Human
    Rights report dealing with minorities in Turkey had an eventful release
    to the media Monday, with the event being disrupted by protestors,
    including members of the board itself.

    Professor Ibrahim Kaboglu, the Chairman of the Board, was interrupted
    at the press conference called to release the report when he was
    attacked by Fahrettin Yokus secretary of the KAMU-Sen, public servants
    trade union, who then tore up the copy of the document before the
    cameras of the media.
    Although forced to halt the press conference due to Yokus's
    attack, Kaboglu said that the report on minorities and cultural rights
    in Turkey had been properly voted on and had undergone changes.
    Kaboglu made a press statement following the incident. He
    highlighted the importance of the human rights and called on all
    related parties to keep a close eye on any infringements.
    `Freedom of thought is also a matter that should be dealt with
    sensitively,' he said.
    In response to the government distancing itself from the report,
    Kaboglu stressed that the board was an official body and that the
    authorities had been informed of the contents of the report.
    The report said that there should be a wider understanding of
    minorities in Turkey, rather than just of the Jewish, Greek and
    Armenian minorities covered by international treaty.
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