Alain de Halleux has a 30-year long career in journalism and directing. He worked in conflict zones and filmed a series of documentaries related to the rights of the Gypsies and nuclear energy. The narration in the documentary reflects the influence of his vast experience. Shown in Turkey, with the contributions of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Foundation Turkey Representation and the Green European Foundation, the film received very positive feedback from viewers.

Co-organized by Sabanc› University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum and Central European University, the conference looked at how war and political violence are remembered from the perspective of gender. The conference, supported by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Turkey Representation, hosted 46 feminist academics as speakers or panelists, and 200 participants from 22 countries.

RDI is an initiative consisting of a group of people and institutions who believe that there is a growing need for rural and local development in an environment which is marked by increasing unemployment, immigration, poverty, lack of clarity in policies; and this need has become more obvious with globalization and the EU accession process.

The scholarship program is based on our values such as ecology and sustainability, democracy, human rights, justice and gender equality. We are questioning what we should change radically in practice and at an intellectual level to attain a sustainable life and trying to develop policies accordingly.

Habap (aka Ekinözü) is a village in the Kovancılar district of Elazı€, inhabited by Armenians until the beginning of the 1990’s, featuring two churches, two schools and a monastery. Fethiye’s grandmother, Heranuş is from this village. Just like many others who survived the 1915 disaster, Heranuş, as well, could not make it back to these lands where she was born and raised. Her grandchild Fethiye Çetin, together with Zeynep Taşkın, took the initiative to restore the two multi-niche fountains with the contributions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as well as the Hrant Dink Foundation and in collaboration with young Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian volunteers. Don’t let the word “fountain” mislead you into underestimation. These are amazing structures, each with three niches.

The Ergenekon investigations initiated in 2007 have brought about a new opportunity in Turkey to bury the counter-guerilla, the organization similar to Gladio that was disbanded after the Cold War in Europe... Nevertheless, this opportunity was long gone when the archives of JITEM that were seized from Arif Doğan were added to the additional documents of the second indictment of the Ergenekon trial after being censured.

When one considers joined cases as well as numerous ongoing investigations and cases that may be joined to the Ergenekon case; examination of all files, raising defenses and a just decision seem almost impossible. Combining this many events and accused in one case so easily, albeit an existence of links, makes resolution of the matter legally impossible and weakens the belief for a just decision.

I realised that “The state does not blame the state”. I realised that “intelligence lies” were replaced by “state lies”. My duty as a journalist, just like intelligence officers, is to reveal the lies of the state, “for Hrant, for Justice”.

According to a news report published in Yeni Özgür Politika newspaper on 10 April 2010 ... on the grounds that they held a demonstration by participating in Newroz celebrations, issued a press statement, and inflamed the public with erbane (tambourine with disks) that they sang along with. The court sentenced them to the punishment of “non-performance of art”.

One of the obstacles facing solar energy is decision makers. It can be said that almost every party supports solar energy; however, when it comes to laws and regulations, the result is not as effective as the verbal support.