What's Being Done On . . . Human Rights and Democracy in Turkey ?

Introduction List of Turkish NGOs Working on Human Rights and Democracy Links to Online Publications ARI MOVEMENT FLYING BROOM TUMIKOM Fourth Assembly Web Site: "Advancing Democracy: Justice, Pluralism, and Participation," Istanbul, Turkey, April 2-5,2006 World Movement Participants Database - Search for more information about groups using advocacy to achieve democratic reform.

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY

The Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 contains information on human rights developments in Turkey in 2005
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/turkey12220.htm

Amnesty International Report- 2005 ( Turkey)
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/tur-summary-eng

Freedom House’s Country Report-2005 ( Turkey)
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=6851&year=2005

Euractiv.com - An up-to-date website that contains news from Turkey, many articles about Turkey’s application for membership in the European Union, as well as articles on challenges facing Turkey today
http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-129678-16&type=LinksDossier

International Religious Freedom Report 2005
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, United States
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51586.htm

“Strategies for Regional International Development: Challenges Facing Turkey on the Road to EU Membership,” by Erbu Ertugal
http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/esi_turkey_tpq_id_40.pdf

“Minorities in Turkey: Submission to the European Union and the Government of Turkey,” by B.Kaya and C. Baldwin, Minority Rights Group International, 2004
http://www.minorityrights.org/admin/download/pdf/MRG-TurkeySub.pdf

“Minorities in Turkey,” by N.Karimova and E.Deverell, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 2001
http://www.ui.se/texter/op19.pdf

“Guide to Law Online: Turkey”, prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), is an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information on government and law available online.
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/turkey.html

Policy Differences Strain Relations Between Turkey’s Government, Military Establishment, by Igor Torbakov, Eurasia Insight, July 2004
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav070203.shtml

“Aligning Civil Military Relations in Turkey: Transparency Building in Defense Sector and EU Reforms,” by Ayse Nilufer Narli
http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/10_wg9_taf_110.pdf .