Mehmet Bekaroğlu
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Mehmet Bekaroğlu is a Turkish
Human Rights
Activist, a scientist, professor, a psychiatrist, a writer, and a politician. He was well known in the Turkish Parliament by his actions against torture
s at jails. He took part in the Human Rights Commission in the parliament.
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
Human Rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
Activist, a scientist, professor, a psychiatrist, a writer, and a politician. He was well known in the Turkish Parliament by his actions against torture
Torture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
s at jails. He took part in the Human Rights Commission in the parliament.