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The Adana massacres (Armenian: Ադանայի կոտորած, Turkish: Adana Katliamı) occurred in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in April of 1909. Many Armenians were slain by Ottoman Muslims in the city of Adana as the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 triggered a series of pogroms throughout the province. [ 3 ]
Acute human rights issues include in particular the status of Kurds in Turkey.The Kurdish–Turkish conflict has caused numerous human rights violations over the years. . There is an ongoing debate in the country on the right to life, torture, freedom of expression as well as freedoms of religion, assembly and associ
The Adana Agreement held until 2011, when overt Turkish support for the Syrian opposition in the context of the Syrian Civil War ended all goodwill between the two countries and the Syrian Government once again started supporting Kurdish groups as a counterweight to Turkish efforts in Syria. [1]
The Constitution focused on issues such as fundamental rights and freedoms, working life, the right to form a trade union, the right to collective bargaining and strike, freedom of the press and communication, political rights. [16] It also contained a long bill of rights and limited the powers of the executive. [17]
The Turkish National Movement (Turkish: Millî Hareket), also known as the Anatolian Movement (Turkish: Anadolu Hareketi), the Nationalist Movement (Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket), and the Kemalists (Turkish: Kemalîler, Kemalciler or Kemalistler), [5] [6] included political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries that resulted in the creation and shaping of the modern Republic ...
The Urfa Man statue is dated c. 9000 BC, to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and is defined as "the oldest known naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human". [ 11 ] Anatolia's historical records start with clay tablets from approximately around 2000 BC that were found in modern-day Kültepe . [ 12 ]
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, 598 U.S. 264 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's comprehensive scheme governing claims of sovereign immunity in civil actions against foreign states and their instrumentalities does not cover criminal cases. [1]
Adana [a] is a large city in southern Turkey.The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 35 km (22 mi) inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.It is the administrative seat of the Adana province, and has a population of 1.8 million, [1] making it the largest city in the Mediterrenean Region of Turkey.