Özlem Dalkıran

Özlem Dalkıran

A Story of Detention at the Airport

A Story of Detention at the Airport

Intiqam Aliyev, a human rights defender and lawyer from Azerbaijan was detained with charges of insulting the police officer at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport and beaten. Despite the efforts of the Istanbul Bar Association, Lawyers' Rights Center, OSCE and Human Rights House, he was deported.

10 December 2011

Turkish Journalists Should Enter the Fray against Windmills

Turkish Journalists Should Enter the Fray against Windmills

On the second day of the training program "From the Newsroom to the Classroom", Özlem Dalkıran from the Helsinki Citizens Assembly and journalist Hilmi Hacaloğlu discussed relations between rights organisations and the media and the perception of rights journalism.

Murder in Cold Blood

69 countries exercise capital punishment. In 2005, more than 2 thousand people were executed. Each one of those murdered will be noted as a shame in human history. We witnessed the last one today.