On the Move with Begüm Başdaş (46): Rights of internally displaced persons in Türkiye, Guest Paula Gaviria – Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs
This week On the Move, Begüm Başdaş talked with Paula Gaviria, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs about the obligations of national authorities and international community to protect the rights of internally displaced people in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Türkiye. Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur is a human rights lawyer and a forced displacement expert and she was appointed Special […]
On The Move with Begüm Başdaş (45): Open-source investigations for human rights, Guest Sam Dubberley | Human Rights Watch
Today On the Move, Begüm Başdaş talked with Sam Dubberley, the managing director of the Digital Investigations Lab in the Technology and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. From videos of rights violations to satellite images, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights investigators have access to more data today than ever before. Thus, the ability to make use of this […]
This Week in Turkey (223): with Serhat Güvenç on the Biden-Erdoğan Meeting
This Week in Turkey’s guest was Professor Serhat Güvenç from Kadir Has University. Professor Güvenç evaluated the outcome of the meeting held between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Joe Biden at the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels on June 14. This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders […]
This Week in Turkey (211): with Çiğdem Nas on Turkey-EU relations
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Çiğdem Nas, who is an associate professor at the political science and international relations department at Yıldız Technical University and the general secretary of the Economic Development Foundation. Professor Nas evaluated the EU Summit decisions regarding Turkey. She assessed why the EU was appeasing Erdoğan despite the repetitive human […]
This Week in Turkey (208): with Rıza Türmen on the Human Rights Action Plan
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Rıza Türmen. Mr. Türmen is a former diplomat, MP and judge at the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2008). Mr. Türmen evaluated Erdoğan’s newly unveiled Human Rights Action Plan in light of Turkey’s human rights violations track record of recent years.