12/10/2022 | 12:53:29 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Today's Turkiye is more democratic and free than ever before in the history. Today's Turkiye is more powerful and peaceful than in 2002. Why I said 2002? Because since then, under the leadership of Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkiye achieved a victory in national struggle, built new modern state and gained its freedom again. But during those years, Turkiye was forced to lag behind the point which it should have originally reached politically... 10/10/2022 | 17:08:12 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) If you can conclude that there is a crime by watching a single video, then what is the need for courts and prosecution? You can see many things in the video. But image and fact is not same thing. What is fact in the video? This is very delicate issue needs to be responded not by politicians by the law enforcement bodies. From the legal point of view, all the facts of alleged crime need to be established. Mental and material elements need to... 23/06/2022 | 18:53:17 Thank you very much, Madam President. How free are we in a social media when our preferences for like, share and comment are highly influenced by the predefined opinion of the majority, or strategically defined misinformation? If we make an analogy to the philosophy of Emmanuel Kant, freedom in social media is not a true freedom, simply because it involves satisfying desires we haven't chosen in the first place. When we like something, dislike something on social media, we are not really... 21/06/2022 | 11:12:51 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear Colleagues, I have to say that I am very disappointed with the report not being comprehensive enough. Security is a wider concept than the defence, by the way, which is not a direct mandate of the Council of Europe. In coffee breaks here in PACE we often discuss about rising energy prices, rising rising food prices, and inflation, which this report failed to mention at all. Furthermore, that today the world is already different with unpredictable... 27/04/2022 | 19:59:07 Thank you very much, Ms President. It's very disappointing that even in the very established democracies, law enforcement officers have used excessive force in many cases. The have violated the principles of necessity, proportionality, precaution, and non-discrimination, notably in policing peaceful demonstrations and counter demonstrations, in handling irregular migration flows. The Black Lives Matter movement proved that excessive use of force by police is not a number of isolated incidents... 26/04/2022 | 19:03:01 Thank you very much. Mister President, Dear colleagues, In the light of recent bilateral meetings, we consider that our Armenian colleagues' statements made yesterday were unconstructive. As a matter of fact, those claims were false. First of all, there is not an administrative unit called Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. There is no Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I know I may sound subjective. I know I may not sound objective but if you check the final communiqué of the Council of the European... 25/04/2022 | 17:50:28 Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you about the meetings between Azerbaijan and Armenia initiated by the President of the European Council, Mr Charles Michel. The results of the two meetings in Brussels can be considered as positive on the whole. The first good news is that the European Union accepts the realities of the post-conflict situation. The words "Nagorno-Karabakh" and "conflict" do not appear in the final communiqué. This is natural because there is no longer a conflict; the... 27/01/2022 | 19:39:53 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, I would like to reiterate my strong discontent with the serious misrepresentation of a number of important issues and uses incorrect terminology referring to the post-conflict situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Referring to the so-called “self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” in the explanatory memorandum, which has never been used in any official documents of the relevant international organizations, including... 27/01/2022 | 11:12:01 Thank you. 3 890 - this may sound like any number. But the uncertainty which the families and the relatives of those 3 890 Azerbaijani missing persons from the First Nagorno-Karabakh War had a harmful psychological, social, legal and economic impact on both the relatives and the wider communities to which they belong. By this Armenia violated Articles 2, 3, 5 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to the disappearance of the 3 890 missing Azerbaijanis, and the failure... 30/09/2021 | 17:27:53 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and gentlemen, The draft opinion before you appears at first sight to be a purely technical exercise. However, as the members of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights heard from the experts at our hearing, the draft protocol raises considerable questions about the rule of law and human rights. The most contentious provisions are those that introduce the possibility of "direct co-operation" of law enforcement authorities with Internet service...