Turkey's Mixed Human Rights Record
Turkey's human rights record is improving in some ways, but it's also facing new challenges that make it difficult to claim a true advance, writes Tulin Daloglu.
Although it yielded no result so far, the Republican People's Party (CHP), or Turkey's main opposition party, submitted a proposal to the speaker of the parliament on Jan. 22 to inquire about the alleged torture suffered by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We propose opening a parliamentary inquiry in order to determine when, where, and how the prime minister was tortured," the CHP statement read, demanding that the torturers be identified and held responsible for this heinous crime.
In all sincerity though, they must have thought that the prime minister could be playing the role of a victim to garner sympathy.
