1. UN Human Rights Office Handed Names of Dissidents to Chinese Regime putting lives in direct danger.

2. UN Rights Council Attacks Western Sanctions, Backs Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba.
3. UN Elects Turkey to Head General Assembly in 2020-2021.
4. UN’s WHO Names China Booster Helen Clark to Head COVID-19 Inquiry.
5. UN Condemns Israel 17 Times, Rest of the World 6.
6. UN’s World Health Organization Praises China for ‘Transparency’ on Coronavirus.
7. UN Elects China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan to Top Human Rights Body.
8. China Joins Key UN Panel to Select Human Rights Investigators on Free Speech, Disappearances, Arbitrary Detention.
9. UN Rights Review Praises Tehran’s Record.
10.  Syria Retains Senior Post at UN Committee Responsible for ‘Decolonizing’ Gibraltar, Falklands, American Samoa.
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"Let me start by saying that I am a historian, I see dead people. But more seriously, I am constantly torn between the temptation to see patterns developing over time, and the fear of hasty generalizations and anachronistic comparisons. 1/n

"Nevertheless, the present situation forces me to explore the possible historical dimensions of the problem we're facing today. 2/n

"(...)I intend to go further back in time and widen the angle in order to focus on the confusion I  believe exists between the notions of 'state', 'government', and 'public institutions' in Turkey. 3/n

"In the summer of 1876, that's a historical quote, as Midhat Pasa was trying to draft a constitution, Edhem Pasa wrote to Saffet Pasa, and I quote in Turkish, 'Bize Konstitusyon degil enstitusyon lazim' ('It is not a constitution we need but institutions'). 4/n

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