A group of young men stood before military service on Christmas night in 1975 and with them began a fight that would involve tens of thousands of people over 30 years.
Article communicated by EBCO's Turkish member organisation VR-DER on 25 Nov 2016 To the press and the public:
While the society is being tried to be made more hostile within each other day by day with the militarist and nationalist speeches that have increased after the termination of the solution process, the militarist pressure on the society is now changing shape.
CONSCIENTIOUS objector Murat Kanatli, who was jailed in the north for refusing to report for reservist duty, saw his petition against Turkey for breach of human rights accepted by the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday.