Crackdown in Turkey Continues


Crackdown on Kurdish activists, journalists and conscientious objectors continues in Turkey. This week tens of journalists arrested. 


"Along with Azerbaijan, Turkey is the only member of the Council of Europe which does not recognize the right to conscientious objection.  After many years of pressure from Amnesty and other human rights groups and through the efforts of brave resistance within the country, the Turkish government is, finally, considering the possibility of creating a legal basis for conscientious objection to military service.  Pressure is building.  Only this week, the European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, in a case involving another conscientious objector, Yunus Erçep." 


....writes Howard Eissenstat on the Amnesty International Weblog. Please see rest of the article to support the conscientious objectors of Turkey and for the addresses of Ragip Zarakolu and Busra Ersanli, who were prisoned under Turkey's Draconian Anti-terror Law. 


Crackdown in Turkey Continues