"No Right Turn: Turkish PM Erdogan In Wellington
Monday, 5 December 2005, 1:55 pm
Opinion: No Right Turn
No Right Turn
Turkish PM Erdogan In Wellington
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan touches down in Auckland tomorrow on the first state visit of a Turkish PM to New Zealand. I've been wondering what to say about this since I saw the government's press release on the visit last month. Turkey has a poor human rights record: according to the US State Department's 2004 country report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey, while the Turkish government 'generally respected the human rights of its citizens',"
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