Human Right Report may end up in court

Fethi Bolayir a member of the board on Monday said the report attacked the national and spiritual values of the republic. Bolayir, who is also the chairman of Social Thinking Association, described the report as a “a document of treason” and called for legal action to be taken against those involved in preparing it.
The report, issued last week, said that there should be greater recognition given to ethnic minorities in Turkey. Currently, only three ethnic minorities are officially recognised in Turkey, these being those of the Jewish, Armenian and Greek communities.
Bolayir said the report disregarded the Laussane Treaty, the international treaty that set out the status of minorities in Turkey.
Bolayr said some of the articles in the report were treasonous.
“If this report that suggests that unchangeable articles of the constitution be changed over its limiting of minority and cultural rights is not a document of treason then what is it?” he said.
He underlined his organisation supported getting rid of injustice, corruption and poverty but not the division of the Turkish Republic.
Bolayr said that the board had more than 30 members and seven including himself voted against the report. He added that changes were made in the section covering minorities without the information of the members meant that an abuse of office and breaching of confidence has also been committed.
Although the government officials denied having anything to do with the report the chairman of the board, Ibrahim Kaboglu, said that report had been submitted to the Prime Ministry.