Ayse Karabat

Articles de cet auteur (5)

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  Sharing civil society experience with the Middle East

  9 February 2011

  It was very entertaining and also surprising to listen to some politicians who were drawing parallels between the situation in Turkey and what is happening in Tunisia.
  While the Tunisians are taking to the streets for real change and the Egyptians are doing the same to replace Hosni Mubarak, Turkish citizens who want to see real change are taking to the salons and the discussion platforms for a brand new constitution because here in Turkey the period of taking to the streets for “big (...)

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  Ezgi Koçak of Ka-der Ankara: Headscarf ban is violence against women

  11 January 2011

  “We want equal representation. We seek a ‘parity law’ — not just quotas — for women. Thus, we demand half of all elected and appointed positions in decision-making bodies,” says Ezgi Koçak, executive member of the Association for Education and Supporting Women Candidates (KA-DER) Ankara branch.
  General elections in Turkey are approaching, and some political parties have already expressed a desire to increase the number of female deputies, but Koçak in an exclusive interview with Today’s Zaman (...)

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  Turquie : la colère des enfants de Cizre

  26 mars 2009

  Un reportage dans le district de Cizre, dans l’extrême sud est de la Turquie, provoque toujours chez moi un sentiment presque insoutenable de profonde inquiétude pour l’avenir.
  Les rues étroites et poussiéreuses, les petites maisons qui, vues du toit de l’une d’elle, évoquent des rangées de tentes construites en ciment, les hommes sans emploi, la tristesse dans les yeux des femmes et les enfants que l’expérience de la vie font paraître plus âgés que leur âge - toutes ces scènes rendent palpable (...)

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  Turkish intellectuals dismayed by Swiss court’s genocide ruling

  11 November 2008

  A Swiss court’s ruling against three Turks for their denial of allegations of an Armenian genocide has drawn ire from liberal intellectuals in Turkey, including Professor Baskın Oran. The court, in Winterthur, ordered Workers Party (İP) Europe representative Ali Mercan to pay a fine of 4,500 Swiss francs ($3,900). Two others were ordered to pay 3,600 Swiss francs each for violating anti-racism legislation. During a demonstration in June of last year, Mercan had denied Armenian claims of (...)

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  “Kurds are losing their faith in democratic solutions”

  21 April 2008

  Sezgin Tanrıkulu, the head of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, says a considerable part of the Kurdish population sees armed struggle as legitimate because they think they are excluded from the democratic process. According to Tanrıkulu, it is possible to change this understanding by taking democratic steps. He and the representatives of 17 civil society organizations from eastern and southeastern Anatolia met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to share their (...)