President Ersin Tatar commemorates 10 December Human Rights Day: “Turkish Cypriots will continue to invoke the most basic form of human rights of freedom, independence and governing themselves.”
In his message on Human Rights Day, President Ersin Tatar underlined that as a people who have suffered injustice and discrimination in the past and who have subjected to various acts of violence, the Turkish Cypriots will abide by the right to freedom, independence and governing themselves, which are considered the most basic human rights.
President Tatar's statement is as follows:
“As people whose individual and social rights have been violated and usurped in the past, Turkish Cypriots are today celebrating in peace December 10 Human Rights Day – on the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) in their own State, under their own sovereignty, in security and prosperity.
Unfortunately, we continue to witness violence, human rights violations and intolerance in today's world, instead of sharing humanity and adhering to the universal values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Human Rights Day, which has been celebrated for 72 years with the vision of protecting the human dignity of millions of people for a more just and peaceful world, is seen as promoting everybody’s natural human right irrespective of the form of discrimination including on the basis of gender, language, race, colour, religion, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
As the President of people who struggled for existence, who were exposed to massacres and achieved the virtue of declaring their own state thanks to the blessed struggle, despite the outdated embargo and isolation against human dignity, I would like to express my belief that as a people who adopted all the values of the modern world, the Turkish Cypriots will protect their sovereignty and state. Like all people in the world, it is without doubt that Turkish Cypriots are entitled to invoke all the principles emanating from the universal values of the Declaration, both as individuals and as a people.
Turkish Cypriots, as people who have suffered injustice and been subjected to various acts of violence, invoke the right to freedom, independence and governing themselves, which are considered the most basic form of human rights.
On this special day, I wish all humanity a more peaceful and safer world and a life in which respect is shown to those who are different, where there is no hate speech, where injustices and all forms of discriminations are eliminated."
“As people whose individual and social rights have been violated and usurped in the past, Turkish Cypriots are today celebrating in peace December 10 Human Rights Day – on the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) in their own State, under their own sovereignty, in security and prosperity.
Unfortunately, we continue to witness violence, human rights violations and intolerance in today's world, instead of sharing humanity and adhering to the universal values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Human Rights Day, which has been celebrated for 72 years with the vision of protecting the human dignity of millions of people for a more just and peaceful world, is seen as promoting everybody’s natural human right irrespective of the form of discrimination including on the basis of gender, language, race, colour, religion, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
As the President of people who struggled for existence, who were exposed to massacres and achieved the virtue of declaring their own state thanks to the blessed struggle, despite the outdated embargo and isolation against human dignity, I would like to express my belief that as a people who adopted all the values of the modern world, the Turkish Cypriots will protect their sovereignty and state. Like all people in the world, it is without doubt that Turkish Cypriots are entitled to invoke all the principles emanating from the universal values of the Declaration, both as individuals and as a people.
Turkish Cypriots, as people who have suffered injustice and been subjected to various acts of violence, invoke the right to freedom, independence and governing themselves, which are considered the most basic form of human rights.
On this special day, I wish all humanity a more peaceful and safer world and a life in which respect is shown to those who are different, where there is no hate speech, where injustices and all forms of discriminations are eliminated."