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  2. Adana massacre - Wikipedia

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    In the Turkish cemeteries, graves are being dug wholesale. ... On Friday afternoon 250 so-called Turkish reserves, without officers, seized a train at Adana and compelled the engineer to convey them to Tarsus, where they took part in the complete destruction of the Armenian quarter of that town, which is the best part of Tarsus. Their work of ...

  3. Human rights in Turkey - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Morgan v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946), is a major United States Supreme Court case. In this landmark 1946 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. [1] [2]

  5. 2016 Turkish coup attempt - Wikipedia

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    Rear Admiral Mustafa Zeki Ugurlu, who had been stationed at NATO's Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, sought asylum in the United States after being recalled by the Turkish government. [203] In July 2018, Istanbul's 25th Criminal Court sentenced 72 former soldiers involved in the coup attempt to life in prison. [204] [205]

  6. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator , and which governments are created to protect.

  7. Deportations of Kurds (1916–1934) - Wikipedia

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    Bruinessen, Martin van (2005), "Ismail Beşikçi: Turkish sociologist, critic of Kemalism, and kurdologist", The Journal of Kurdish Studies, V Olson, Robert W. (1989), The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925 , University of Texas Press, ISBN 978-0-292-77619-7

  8. Kirkor Bezdikyan - Wikipedia

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    Bezdikyan, successor Sinyor Artin and Mangoyan were the three ethnic Armenian mayors of Adana in the late 19th century. Kirkor was the member of the wealthy Bezdikyan family, who had a 100-hectare farm in İncirlik. He had one house in Hıdır İlyas, one house in Sarı Yakub, one house and two shops in Faki Durmuş neighborhoods in the city. [3]

  9. 2023 Adana attack - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 Adana attack was a knife attack at the Adana provincial headquarters of the Free Cause Party (HüdaPar), located in Seyhan, Turkey. Salih Demir, the president of HüdaPar's Adana wing, was injured, and his secretary Sacit Pişgin lost his life.