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We do not know the true scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey and the world. When will it be safe to reopen schools, go back to work and daily life again? What if you already had the infection without symptoms, recovered and now immune? Widespread antibody blood testing can help answer these questions and should be developed and made broadly available, together with the current tests that detect the virus.

The current outbreak by the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV is not the first, and will not be the last microbe that jumped from animals to humans, because we continue to eat animals as food and invade their natural territory. A good way to reduce infectious outbreaks from animals is veganism, stopping wildlife trade, human consumption of animal products, and importantly, recognizing animal sentience. Article 13 of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 recognized animal sentience in Europe. We should follow suit because we are less likely to eat animals, colonize wildlife habitats and be exposed to animal pathogens, once we accept animal sentience and agency.

On the 13th anniversary of Hrant Dink's murder, thousands gathered again where he was shot. This year's speech was delivered by Şebnem Korur Fincancı, human rights activist ,and Sertaç Ekinci, son of Yusuf Ekinci who was shot dead in 1994 , which is remain an unresolved crime.

Concerning the prevention of the election of a patriarch by the Armenian community by the State during the period when Patriarch Mutafian was unable to serve, the Constitutional Court (CC) had ruled for "violation of the freedom of religion". Now the Court has announced the reasoned decision which embodies significant elements.

The rise of populism and post-truth is a wake up call to humanity and modernity to: (1) Recognize that knowledge production, journalism (and life) are value-loaded, and thus, inherently political, (2) Rethink the relationship between journalism and activism, (3) Realize it is not politics but sweeping politics under the carpet and unchecked human power that are existential threats to journalism, democracy and peace on planet Earth in the 21st century

In Cambodia I often heard that the particularity of the Cambodian genocide is the fact that “they killed their own people”. They mean by it that Khmer Rouge killed their ethnic kin, other Khmer.

The tenth International Hrant Dink Award was presented on Saturday, September 15th during an award ceremony held at the Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

At the entrance of Tuol Sleng, which was known as S-21 prison under the Khmer Rouge, a visitor is faced with a poster that publicized the ten “security regulations” of the prison, in Khmer, with French and English translations. Number six says: “while getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.”

The decision taken by the Foundations Council under DG Foundations paves the way for the allocation of worship places such as synagogues and churches under the administration of the Directorate General of Foundations to minority foundations against no cost.