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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 ANKARA 000411
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR DRL/PHD (OZKAN)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ELAB KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY,
2004-5
REF: 04 SECSTATE 267453
¶1. In response to reftel, the following is Mission's
contribution to the 2004-5 edition of "Supporting Human
Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record."
¶2. Turkey is a constitutional republic with a multiparty
parliamentary system and a president with limited powers
elected by the single-chamber parliament, the Turkish Grand
National Assembly. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the
Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the majority of seats
and formed a one-party government. In March 2003, AKP
Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdogan was named Prime Minister. The
Government generally respected the human rights of its
citizens. There were significant improvements in a number of
areas, but serious problems remained. The Government
continued to restrict religious freedom and to punish some
forms of non-violent expression. Human rights organizations
continued to report widespread incidents of police torture
and ill-treatment. The Government adopted extensive human
rights-related legal reforms designed to crack down on
torture and "honor killings" (the killing by immediate family
members of women suspected of being unchaste), and expand
freedom of religion and association. The Constitution
provides for an independent judiciary; however, the judiciary
was sometimes subject to outside influences.
¶3. Members of the Mission routinely meet with representatives
of various political, religious, social, cultural, and ethnic
groups to discuss human rights conditions and relations
between these groups and the Turkish State. Mission
officials also meet regularly with members of the
bureaucracy, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary to
encourage broad reforms, including reforms needed to meet EU
accession criteria. The Mission focused on a broad range of
human rights fields, including: police and judicial
practices; religious freedom; freedom of expression;
government ethics; trafficking in persons; and the right of
return for internally displaced persons.
¶4. In compliance with the Leahy Amendment, the Mission worked
closely with the Ministry of Defense to vet military
personnel for U.S. training and checked candidates with other
Embassy offices. Under a USG-Government of Turkey memorandum
of intent for anti-terrorist training for law enforcement,
the USG provides training organized through the Mission while
the Turkish Government screens training candidates for human
rights violations. To date, $10 million in course offerings
has been provided to Turkish law enforcement authorities.
¶5. The Mission has emphasized the importance of prosecuting,
convicting, and sentencing to appropriate jail terms police
who commit torture. In separate decisions in March and
September, an Ankara court convicted five police officers in
the Birtan Altinbas death-in-detention case and sentenced
them each to four years and five months in prison. The court
acquitted five co-defendants. In November, the High Court of
Appeals overturned the verdict on the grounds that the
sentences were too lenient, sending the case back to the
lower court. The Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of
Torture, along with its Turkish NGO partners, held its New
Tactics in Human Rights International Symposium in Ankara
September 29-October 2. The USG contributed $895,000 to the
project.
¶6. The teaching of English in Turkey helps build a foundation
for introducing Western-oriented educational practices and
concepts such as critical thinking, student-centered
classrooms, team building, and conflict resolution. The
Mission's English Language Office programming extends to
universities in geographic regions well outside the
Istanbul-Ankara-Izmir corridor. The placement of American
English Language Fellows (ELFs) in university ELT and English
departments, in English preparation programs, and at military
service academies has provided critical exposure to American
culture and values. FY05 ELF placements include universities
in the conservative cities of Konya, Trabzon and Erzurum. A
new component of the FY05 English language teaching program
is ACCESS, a program designed to permit non-elite high school
students to study English in their home cities.
Approximately 200 underprivileged teenagers are presently
studying English through the ACCESS program.
¶7. The International Visitor Program continues to provide
opportunities for professionals in all fields to be
introduced to the United States and American counterparts.
Participants in the FY2004 program joined a number of
projects related to democracy and human rights (see
appendix): four women parliamentarians participated in a
project on "Women in Politics;" an official of the Ankara
municipality participated in a Civic Education multi-regional
project (MRP); and mayors, journalists, parliamentarians and
business leaders joined projects related to local government,
investigative journalism, and the U.S. presidential
elections.
¶8. The Mission provided an Embassy officer, a former defense
attorney, as guest speaker on several occasions to address
members of the Turkish National Police. The speaker
discussed concepts such as "due process of law" and "chain of
custody" under the U.S. Constitution.
¶9. The 2004 U.S. presidential elections turned the spotlight
on U.S. democratic practices and gave the Mission an
opportunity to engage many different audiences on the U.S.
electoral system. Election programming began in early
October with a U.S. speaker with expertise in the electoral
system, polling in election campaigns, and political parties.
The Mission organized an Election Watch program that took
place over 15 hours in two venues. The program at the
Turkish-American Association was open to the public and
included a panel discussion, screening of videotapes of the
presidential debates, live election coverage, and a press
conference held by the Ambassador. The Mission also held an
Election Watch at the Ambassador's Residence, which attracted
approximately 300 government officials, politicians, editors,
and other high-level contacts. In Istanbul, more than 400
guests, including representatives from 43 media
organizations, attended the November 3 "Celebration of the
American Presidential Election," opened by the Consul
General. A U.S. Speaker program in March 2005 will focus on
post-election U.S. domestic policy.
¶10. The Fulbright Program in Turkey, active since 1953,
encompasses scholarly exchanges at all levels, from students
to senior teaching and research scholars, and includes high
school teacher and administrator exchange projects. The
Fulbright Program offers educational advising to Turkish
students who wish to study in the U.S. Turkey ranks eighth
among countries sending students to the U.S.
¶11. In 2001-2003, the Mission collaborated with the Institute
for the Study and Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS) to
undertake a Turkey-U.S. Legal Exchange Project to examine
Turkish and U.S. perspectives on freedom of expression,
police conduct, and trial alternatives in the criminal
justice process through a series of exchanges and seminars,
with funds from DRL and the Office of Citizen Exchanges. In
FY04, ISDLS was awarded a continuation grant to address
specific measures to improve the handling of the three
issues. An ISDLS U.S. delegation traveled to Turkey in
September 2004, and a Turkish delegation examining
alternatives to criminal trial will travel to the U.S. in
March 2005. Working with the U.S. Department of Justice's
Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and
Training (OPDAT), the Mission will collaborate with the
Turkish Ministry of Justice to organize workshops in two
cities in March on prosecution of police misconduct cases.
¶12. The Mission enhanced its collaboration with the NGO
community through an FY04 Office of Citizen Exchanges grant
on "Women's Leadership." Kent State University and its NGO
partner in Turkey are planning a series of leadership
conferences involving participants from women's associations
in Turkey's conservative southeastern region. The Citizen
Exchanges grant will support a professional exchange program
for journalists in FY05 that is designed to foster ethics and
journalistic responsibility among younger reporters and
stress freedom of expression to editors, publishers, and
media owners. A grant from the State Department Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) to the National
Democratic Institute on parliamentary reform will take a
group of 10 Turkish MPs to the U.S. in March 2005 to explore
issues of legislative reform and meet with congressional
counterparts. Another ECA-supported grant is focused on
exchanges of American and Turkish high school students. Such
projects support basic MPP goals to promote respect for human
rights and encourage democratic practices, especially among
youth and non-elite communities.
¶13. The Ambassador, DCM, and Mission consular officials meet
regularly with officials from the Justice and Foreign Affairs
ministries, as well as parliamentarians, prosecutors and
judges to urge improved judicial treatment of Turkey's
obligations under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction and
ensure that Amcit child abduction cases move as swiftly as
possible through the court system.
¶14. The Mission has also stressed the need to allow free
religious expression for all faiths, including all Protestant
denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Baha,i faith,
which have no legal standing in Turkey. The USG at the
highest levels continues to urge the Turkish Government to
reach agreement with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the
re-opening of the Halki seminary on the island of Heybeli.
Mission officials continue to engage regularly Turkish
Government officials in a dialogue on religious freedom. In
December, the Mission supported the visit to Turkey of the
Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a U.S.-based group of
Greek Orthodox laymen. The Ambassador accompanied Archon
representatives to a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul to discuss Halki and other issues relating to
the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
¶15. In June, U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and
Foreign Minister Gul presided over a signing ceremony that
launched the first shelter for victims of trafficking in the
country. The Municipality of Istanbul and the Human Resource
Development Foundation (HRDF) located a temporary rental
facility, which HRDF is currently renovating, until more
permanent facilities can be secured. Under terms of the
agreement, the Istanbul Municipality committed to renting the
property and turning it over, cost-free, to HRDF. The
Mission will bring a U.S. speaker to make presentations at an
International Organization for Migration conference on
Trafficking in Persons in February 2005.
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Appendices
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¶16. Speakers and Programs:
-- March 10: DVC with Bruce Hoffman, RAND Washington, on
terrorism with journalists.
Funded with FY04 I-Bucks.
-- April 1-10: U.S. Speaker Walter Russell Mead, Senior
Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, for programs on U.S.
foreign policy at universities and think tanks in Ankara,
Adana, and Istanbul. FY04-I-Bucks.
-- April 7-14: U.S. Speaker Todd Gitlin, Professor of
Journalism, Columbia University, for programs on "Media and
Society" at Ankara University School of Communications, at
think tanks and at universities in Istanbul and Bursa.
-- April 7: DVC with Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the
University of Chicago Divinity School, on terrorism with
journalist and academics in Ankara. FY04 I-Bucks.
-- April 14-26: American Studies Traveling Seminar at
Ataturk University in Erzurum,
on Resources for Teaching about the United States. ECA Office
for Study of the U.S.
-- April 24-28: U.S. Speaker Omar Khalidi, Aga Khan Program
at MIT, for programs
on Islamic Architecture and Mosque Design in the U.S. in
Ankara and Istanbul. FY04
I-Bucks.
-- May 5-10: U.S. Speaker Kevin McNamara Associate Professor
of American Literature, University of Houston-Clear Lake,
keynote speaker at 9th Cultural Studies Symposium at Ege
University in Izmir on U.S. culture and values. FY04 I-Bucks.
-- August 1-5: ECA CultureConnect program in Gaziantep and
Kayseri with Georgetown basketball envoys Courtland Freeman
and Omari Faulkner focusing on youth and grassroots citizen
participation. Funded by ECA.
-- October 1-16: Regional Environment Office and PAS outreach
program on Renewable and Efficient Energy Use in Istanbul,
Ankara, and Adana. Funded by EB/IIP.
-- October 15-23: U.S. Speaker Thomas Schaller on the 2004
U.S. Presidential Elections; programs in Ankara, Adana,
Istanbul and Bursa. FY05 I-Bucks.
-- October 18-20-25: Presentations on the U.S. Elections by
the Ambassador at universities in Izmir, Konya, and Kayseri.
Post-funded.
-- October 21-24: U.S. Speaker Ann Symons, past president of
the American Library Association at the 50th anniversary
symposium of the Ankara University library school,
established in 1954 with U.S. funding and support. FY05
I-Bucks.
-- October 27-November 4: U.S. Speaker Giles Gunn, keynote
speaker at the 29th annual American Studies of Turkey (ASAT);
programs in Ankara and Istanbul. FY05 I-Bucks.
-- November 2- 3: U.S. Presidential Election Watch programs
in Ankara and Istanbul. Post-funded.
-- December 5-11: U.S. Speaker Max Boot, Senior Fellow,
Council on Foreign Relations, on U.S. Foreign Policy, for
programs in Ankara, Adana, and Istanbul. FY05 I-Bucks.
-- December 8-9: American Council of Young Political Leaders
(ACYPL) U.S. delegation programs in Istanbul and Ankara.
Funded by ECA grant.
¶17. International Visitors Projects:
-- SERIN, Ayten, Reporter, Hurriyet Mass Daily, Istanbul: MRP
"Print Journalism," February 19 - March 11, 2004.
-- YAGIZ, Senkal, Reporter, News Center, SHOW TV, Istanbul:
MRP "TV Broadcasting," April 1 - 22, 2004.
-- AKYIL, Osman, General Manager, Akyil Textile Company,
Diyarbakir: MRP "U.S. Trade Policy and the World Economy,"
April 8 - 29, 2004.
-- SARIGUL, Mustafa, Mayor of Sisli, Istanbul: Individual
project on "Presidential
Campaigning," June 5 - 20, 2004.
-- PASAOGLU, Serife Aydan, Foreign Relations Director, AKUT
Turkey Search and
Rescue: MRP "Humanitarian Responses to Crises and
Disasters," July 15 - August 5, 2004.
-- TUNCAY, Didem, Diplomatic Affairs Reporter, NTV TV,
Ankara: MRP "Investigative
Journalism," August 5 - 26, 2004.
-- CAKIROZER, Utku, Diplomatic Correspondent, Milliyet
Newspaper, Ankara: MRP "Investigative Journalism," August 5 -
26, 2004.
-- INCEKARA, Halide, Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Member of Parliament from Istanbul; OKUDUCU, Guldal,
Republican People's Party (CHP) Member of Parliament from
Istanbul; SAHIN, Fatma, Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Member of Parliament from Gaziantep: ITT on "Women in U.S.
Politics," August 28 - September 18, 2004.
-- CAVUSOGLU, Mevlut, Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Member of Parliament from Antalya: MRP "U.S. Presidential
Campaign," September 9 - 30, 2004.
-- SIPAHIOGLU, Hasan, Mayor of Alanya, Antalya: Individual
grant on "Development, Preservation and Tourism," September
13 - October 1, 2004.
-- BIRBILEN, Mr. Mustafa, Librarian, Greater Municipality of
Gaziantep: Individual project on "U.S. Political, Social and
Educational Issues," October 4 - 22, 2004.
-- TUTAR, Bercan, Deputy Foreign News Editor, Yeni Safak
Daily, Istanbul: EU/RP "U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges I,"
October 18 - November 5, 2004.
-- ERGUDER, Tufan, Chief, Istanbul Narcotics Division, TNP:
MRP "Combating International Crime," January 6 - 27, 2005.
-- BEKLEVIC, Tuna, President, Economists Platform (NGO),
Istanbul: Individual project on "U.S. Political, Economic and
Social Issues," January 10 - 28, 2005.
-- IBA, Mr. Seref, Deputy Director, Department of Laws and
Resolutions, Turkish Grand National Assembly, Ankara:
Individual project on "The Bicameral System: How the U.S.
Congress Staff System Works," January 10 - 28, 2005.
EDELMAN