Category Archives: Denial
Sri Lanka rejects U.S. Senate call for a probe over human rights
Xinhua COLOMBO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government rejected a call by U.S. Senators for an independent probe on alleged human rights abuses during the last stages of Sri Lanka’s conflict with the Tamil Tiger rebels. “We reject the call as we have already started our own panel to probe the conflict and [...]
Turkey Blasts Australia for ‘Distorting History’
FAIRFIELD, Australia—A monument commemorating the genocide of 750,000 Assyrians in World War I was unveiled on Saturday, August 7, reported the Assyrian International News Agency. Ankara reacted immediately, accusing Australia of distorting history. Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selcuk Unal said on Aug. 9 that Turkey condemned opening of the Assyrian Genocide Monument.
UN to critique Australia’s human rights record
ABC News The United Nations will examine Australia’s human rights record today. A UN committee will hear from non-government organisations, the Australian Human Rights Commission, and others, about Australia’s human rights record.
Holocaust Denial Today
by Manuel Prutschi The story is told of the Jew who, on being captured by the Nazis, was dealt eighty brutal blows by his captors and yet managed to live to tell the tale. This survivor carried with him not only the memory and the pain of those eighty blows, and what he and his [...]
Time to practise what we preach on human rights
by SMH Australian diplomats appeared at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in early May to dispense some friendly advice to Kiribati and Lesotho. In Australia’s opinion, neither country was doing enough on the home front to protect human rights. Australia recommended Kiribati should “ensure human rights are afforded full [...]
Don’t blame Europe for Turkey’s moves away from the West
Continued rejection by the European Union does not alone account for Turkey’s embrace of Muslim nations. The U.S. must push the Turks to reform internally By Henri Barkey In an interview this month with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, President Obama suggested that the European Union’s continued reluctance to accept Turkey into its ranks [...]
Responding to: ”Don’t blame Europe for Turkey’s moves away from the West”
by F. Genas I come from Cyprus (from my name you should have already judged that I am Greek) and I noticed that you did not mention Cyprus at all in your article. I have to say that I am not surprised, since the current leadership hardly opposes entry of Turkey in the EU. Greece [...]
Human Rights Committee considers report of Israel
by Relief Web The Human Rights Committee has concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Israel on the measures undertaken by that country to implement the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Erdoğan resents US inaction over Israeli killing of Furkan
By Today’s Zaman While openly voicing bitterness over US indifference to the fact that a US citizen, Furkan Doğan, was also killed during a May 31 Israeli attack on a civilian convoy in international waters, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated that Turkey has no intention of letting Israel get away with its “pirate-like” [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez Out of Controversial Turkish-Occupied Concert
CANA Network: July 8, 2010 NEW YORK- The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) Press Officer Nikolaos Taneris after direct consultation with American celebrity news sourcce TMZ.com managed to finally get a statement from a rep of Jennifer Lopez, she repeats the concerns raised by our grass-roots campaign on human rights, the statement says: “Jennifer [...]
Turkey Annoyed Over Clinton’s Genocide Memorial Visit
by Armen Hareyan The foreign minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu told Hurryiet that the Turkish side has conveyed its annoyance over U.S. Secretary State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial where she laid a wreath at the Genocide Memorial built in homage to up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians that became the victims [...]
Lieberman: No apology to Turkey
FM responds to Ankara’s threat to break diplomatic ties with Israel Israel has “no intention of apologizing to Turkey “over the IDF’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla last month, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday. Speaking during a visit to Lithuania, Lieberman said that, “The opposite was true.” Lieberman’s remarks came after a warning from [...]
JENNIFER LOPEZ: Celebrating with the Rapists for money?
For Immediate Release: July 5, 2010 Contact: Nikolaos Taneris , New York . Tel. (917) 699-9935 NEW YORK—The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) is reporting that as of July 4th, 2010 American celebrity Jennifer Lopez has still not cancelled or denied that she is set to visit the illegal bandit pseudo-state that is recognized [...]
Turkey bans Israeli military flight from its airspace as freeze deepens
Move represents further escalation of crisis between countries since Gaza flotilla incident in May by Ian Black Turkey has banned an Israeli military flight from its airspace in apparent retaliation for Israel‘s interception of the Free Gaza flotilla last month, in which nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed. Officials in Ankara confirmed today that Israeli military aircraft [...]
Spat or not, Turkey still using Israeli tech in attacks on PKK
By Zvi Bar’el The rhetoric from Turkey’s prime minister and reports from Turkey on a freeze of deals with Israeli defense contractors have not kept the Turkish army from using Israeli technology against the Kurdish PKK rebels inside Iraq.
