09/04/2025 | 20:01:15 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear collegues, Mayor of Istanbul, President of Union of Municipalities in Türkiye, and our presidential candidate Mr. Ekrem İmamoğlu has been in jail since March 19. I will not repeat what happened, because the facts and injustices are crystal clear. Instead of repeating the facts, I will focus on the ways to react. What makes us an institution based on protecting human rights and democracy is not our tactics or ability to maneuver. It is... 09/04/2025 | 19:20:12 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for this report focusing on a critical challenge our institution is facing. The implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights is not about obeying to foreign powers, as some might claim it to be. It is about respecting the values of this very institution and its existence. With several judgments, such as KAVALA, DEMIRTAŞ and YÜKSEKDAĞ cases not being implemented, I'm... 09/04/2025 | 12:40:25 Thank you, Mister President. My question will be about the case of Mr İMAMOĞLU, the Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate. Ekrem İMAMOĞLU has been jailed for political reasons along with his closest colleagues, including his campaign manager, his main advisor and several district mayors in Istanbul. There are several lawsuits filed against the Republican People's Party (CHP) with demands for the appointment of a trustee to our party. Mister Minister, you already mentioned... 30/01/2025 | 16:49:33 Thank you, Madam Chair, dear colleagues, To be completely honest, when I read this report, two issues caught me by surprise. I will thank the rapporteur for one of them and I will offer a critique on the other. First of all, violence against women is not limited to physical violence. It can also be economic. To strengthen the role of women in the economy, governments must take steps towards gender-responsive budgeting. The most powerful and yet most attacked instrument of the Council of... 29/01/2025 | 19:12:58 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank the rapporteur for her very important work. First and foremost, I think it's essential for Europe to see immigrants not as a burden, but as an opportunity. At a time when the concept of security is taking precedence over human rights, and the concept of power is taking precedence over equality, it's important that we all have a new point of view. Some issues that states see as problems can be the solution to existing problems... 29/01/2025 | 10:18:23 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, Political debates taking place in Europe today are not independent of the suffering experienced in the past, nor of the fear that such tragedies may be repeated. The crises that Europe and its institutions are facing today, the European responses, the rise of far-right movements, and the stances taken by young people in the face of these crises are often discussed from various perspectives: law, human rights, hate speech, politics. However, we place... 28/01/2025 | 17:24:12 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I do not come from a country free from terrorism. When we speak of fight against terrorism, I come from a place where society is very sensitive to this issue. I live in a country where I can fully understand how people might feel insecure about violence. However, I also know what fight against terrorism is and what it is not. Fighting terrorism cannot be achieved through disproportionate responses to attacks. Killing children is not self-defence... 03/10/2024 | 18:25:12 Thank you, Mister Chair. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank dear Mr Simon MOUTQUIN for this report. The silence of the European Constitutions on right to food, while being indirectly protected in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the conclusions of the European Committee of Social Rights, tells us about a political choice. As guaranteed in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... 03/10/2024 | 16:46:31 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, the fight against homophobia and transphobia has led to many advancements. Particularly instruments like the Istanbul Convention are essential to ensure that everyone feels safe and feels that they belong in society, especially concerning the prevention of and fight against every form of violence. However, this struggle has no end, and fighting in just one aspect is never enough. Discrimination persists, access to social and economic rights... 02/10/2024 | 10:23:32 Thank you, Madam Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for her excellent work. The treatment and disproportionate sanctions imposed on Mr Julian ASSANGE are creating a chilling effect on the media, not only in the United States but around the world. Disclosing evidence of serious human rights violations is an act of journalism. An abuse of the Espionage Act sends a message to many authoritarian regimes, some of which are the subjects of the...