Turkish President Abdullah Gul says Turkish society is determined to carry its diversities to the future.
President Abdullah Gul has said Turkey is heir of a tradition which manages to pick harmony, wealth and power from diversities by taking “human” as base for centuries, adding Turkish society has a full determination to carry its diversities to the future within the frame of mutual respect and sympathy that can make the country stronger.
Gul released a message to mark “Human Rights Day” which is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December and the 65th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In his message, Gul reminded, “while adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN General Assembly also declared that people’s having equal rights assured individual freedoms, prosperity, development, global peace and justice.”
Pointing to the fact that the declaration was a result of a universal approach, the President said, “It is a concrete manifestation of civilization and common sense which has relied upon centuries as well as an assurance for world peace and security. People may come from different nationalities and cultures and have different values as well. However, common grounds of humanity are individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms with which they are endowed, which is a sine qua non for an honorable life.”
History shows that the countries which rely upon universal human values are more peaceful, stable and prosperous, said the President in the message.
Gul underlined one of the basic elements for world peace is to equally exercise universal values of human rights and said it would be useful to remind international cooperation in this sense, adding “Turkey feeds from a culture and civilization which take human as basis. In fact, the rights and freedoms included in the declaration are building blocks of our society.”
Gul celebrated the Human Rights Day at the end of the message, wishing an understanding that takes respect for human rights to prevail in whole world.
In addition, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said they [as a government] have been continuing their efforts which aimed protection and development of human rights and emplacement of democracy’s and law’s dominance in Turkey and the world.
Erdogan said Turkey has adopted protection and development of human rights as primary state policy and accordingly made leading reforms by which it has covered a key distance in recent years.
All people in anywhere in the world have equal rights and freedoms and they should have them, said the Prime Minister, adding “Turkey’s priority is to enable its people to be equal and free before law regardless of their origins, status and identities.”
Erdogan also said in the message that human rights violation in a globalizing world is not only a threat to the country where it occurred, but also for world peace and stability. That’s why, international community should not remain silence against the human rights violations in our region and different geographies of the world, added the Prime Minister.
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