Human rights in Turkey

The Turkish Constitution guaranteed the Human rights basic with any citizen Turkish. Nevertheless the situation of the human rights in Turkey focused the attention of the international community, in particular since the coup d'etat of 1980. The tackled main issues are the methods of the security services, in particular in south-east, the freedom of expression and the private violences made to the women (who obtained the civil equality in 1926 and the right to vote in 1934).

The Turkey did many efforts to start the negotiations of adhesion to the European Union. It signed the European Convention of the human rights, then, in September 2005, the optional Protocol referring to Convention against torture and other sorrows or treatments cruel, inhuman or degrading UNO. The Capital punishment, unapplied since 1983, was removed for the crimes of common right in 2001, for all the crimes in times of peace the following year, then in any circumstance in 2004. The penal code was reformed in 1991, then rewritten completely in 2005. Since 1997, the violence of repression against the Parti the workers of Kurdistan decreased. As from 2002, impunity against the police officers and military guilty of torture ceased, which was greeted by Amnesty International. Concerns remain however. Amnesty International regrets, for example, that part of the complaints for torture were classified without continuation (report/ratio 2006), although “the number of allegations of torture or ill treatments fell overall” (reports/ratios 2006 and 2007). Association also regrets, in his report/ratio 2007, that article 301 of the new penal code is to use to bring lawsuits with several journalists and intellectuals, but recognizes that “the majority of these businesses, including that concerning the prize winner of the Nobel Prize of literature Orhan Pamuk, showed releases”.

the situation of the human rights in Turkey

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