24/01/2022 | 17:34:37 Thank you, Mr President. Mr President, distinguished members of the Assembly, allow me first and foremost, to express my thanks and my appreciation to both rapporteurs Baroness Doreen E. MASSEY and Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN for the excellent reports they have prepared and presented. I support both reports, both draft resolutions, and both recommendations wholeheartedly. I took the floor to comment and express my feelings on the report entitled Inaction on climate change – a violation of... 23/06/2021 | 17:52:10 Thank you, Madam President. Distinguished members of the Assembly, what we have in front of us at this session is a report about the people who have suffered for several tens of years in their history. It's about the Tatars of Crimea. They have suffered because of a deportation from their homeland, where they lived for hundreds of years, under the repressive regime of Stalin's Soviet Union. They began to return to their homeland in 1989 but their sufferings did not end even after the... 21/06/2021 | 18:56:01 Thank you, Madam President, distinguished members of the Parliamentary Assembly. Allow me, first and foremost, to express my appreciation to the rapporteur Mr Boriss CILEVIČS for this report and also Mr Pere LÓPEZ for his opinion on the report. The report shows with substantial evidence and solid argumentation, including references to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, to previous resolutions of the Assembly relevant to the topic in discussion, to the Constitutions and the... 30/01/2020 | 16:10:25 Thank you, Mister President. Distinguished members of the Assembly, we are discussing here today the recent developments in Libya and in the Middle East, and we are trying to identify which could be the consequences of those developments for Europe. The immediate consequences for Europe are many folds. But the most acute among those consequences happen to be the increasing pressure emanating from massive population displacements and growing migration, as well as the increasing danger of... 28/01/2020 | 18:24:35 Thank you, Mr President. Honorable members of the Assembly, The month of January is a month of mourning for all the democratic forces in Turkey who believe in the right to freedom of expression, as well as free, independent and pluralistic media. It is a month of mourning because 3 journalists in Turkey have been killed in January. On January 24, 1993, Uğur Mumcu, a prominent investigative Journalist of the Newspaper Cumhuriyet, was murdered by a terrorist attack in Ankara. On January 8, 1996... 03/10/2019 | 16:23:47 President, The debate we are having today is not only about a specific country or a specific event. The debate we are having today is taking place at a time when we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of this organisation. It is therefore also about the common values that we all share in this common house of ours that we call Europe. It is about democracy, it is about freedom of speech, of expression, of opinion, of media. It is about the separation of powers that we all value. It's about... 02/10/2019 | 17:58:48 Thank you hounorable President, distinguished members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The report on protecting and supporting the victims of terrorism stands as an excellent work on covering the unseen effects on victims of any given terrorist attack. I congratulate the rapporteur for this outstanding report. I use the word unseen intentionally because victims of terrorism try to cope with diverse difficulties in life. They have a social life, a family and a work... 26/06/2019 | 19:20:09 Merci Madame la Presidente On 24 January 1993, a famous journalist, Ugur MUMCU, was assassinated by a car bomb in front of his home in Ankara, Turkey. He was a leading writer for the Daily Cumhuriyet and his death led to wide condemnation and public protests. Today, annual commemorative events are organised in order to keep the new generations aware of this cowardly attack on life, but ultimately on the writing, thinking and opinion-making of a respected journalist. Since Ugur MUMCU’s death... 10/04/2019 | 11:23:26 I take the floor to comment on the report on the role and responsibilities of political leaders in combating hate speech and intolerance. Let me start by expressing my appreciation to the rapporteur for her effort in dealing with one of the most important deficiencies of politics today. The report addresses very accurately the problem of hate speech and intolerance, which causes increasing discrimination and disharmony in our societies. Sociocultural differences in societies enrich culture... 09/04/2019 | 18:23:32 I would like to express my sincere appreciation of and congratulations to the rapporteur for the preparation of this report, which will become a significant reference document for our future work. On 5 December 1934, Turkey accepted women’s right to vote and to be elected. Since then, women have been active in Turkish politics. Unfortunately, in the United Nations 2017 women in politics report, Turkey was ranked 132nd among United Nations members. In the 2018 general elections, only 104 women...