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SÖYLEDİKLERİ VE YAZDIKLARI
The birth of individual is the most disruptive process in history.
Athens committed suicide once and successfully. The West did the
same twice in this century, fortunately unsuccessfully. How can we
manage, if we can at all, this process with the least damage and
the most benefit to humanity. If we do not want the disintegration
of the countries and avoid the sufferings thereof the establishment
of democracy in the first phase should have an overriding priority"
over particular rights. Interdisciplinary studies with the
participation of sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists,
historians etc. should address these crucial topics.
The Center for Human Rights should accordingly be reinforced
from personnel and resources point of view. It should establish
close working relations with other centers, institutes and
foundations. Otherwise, our efforts are condemned to remain
sterile.
Mr. Chairman,
I now turn to a question which primarily concerns my country
but which is also a case in point.
Amnesty International (AI) produces reports on human rights
violations in Turkey. When I go through these reports, I observe the
following:
This organisation acts in violation of Resolution I (XXIV),
Operative Paragraph 2 of the Sub-Commission for it resorts to
politically motivated stands. In 1987 when Turkey made its
application to the EC for full membership, AI had produced 3
reports totaling only 21 pages. In the following year, the number of
reports went up to 4 and the pages to 45. In 1989, the volume of 4
reports reached 141 pages with full of exaggerations and excesses.
And a climax was orchestrated in December 1989 when the EC
Commission gave its opinion on Turkish application. Was Turkey's
human rights performance getting worse On the contrary. But
some circles in member countries which object Turkey's
membership on religious, cultural and racial grounds chose to
deter Turkey through defamation. They should be honest enough
to say a plain 'no' rather than playing up with the dignity of a
nation.
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