Comparisons of India and Turkey: Regional Geography and Human Rights

Comparisons of India and Turkey: Regional Geography and Human Rights





India and Turkey have common issues with the violations of human rights against their citizens which may be resolved through constant exposing of their governments’ actions to allow the people to get their power back. Both countries have problems that are inherent in their histories and present at the higher levels of government. The best way to create change in a corrupt system is to expose it so the people can uprise for real change.

              India is a country located in the southern portion of Asia bordering the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. The country can be found bordering the countries, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bhutan. Being the second-most populous country, it has 1/6 of the world’s population. India is an extremely diverse country with hundreds of languages spoken there and thousands of small ethnic groups. Those living in the north-central and northwestern areas are usually ethnically connected to Europeans and Indo-Europeans while for those living in northeastern India the population is more ethnically Burman and Tibetan.

              Corruption in India has its roots in its early colonial days, starting with the British Raj period, and the only difference is that the kind of corruption has changed over the decades. India ranked only 94th out 0f 176 countries in 2013 in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, and it has been estimated that $39 billion has been misappropriated by government officials, cited The Central Vigilance Commission. This has a horrible effect on the country because it deliberately misleads the people about where their tax dollars are being spent and adds to a distrust in the governmental system’s ability to serve the people.

              Turkey is positioned at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Balkans, Caucasus, and Middle East. Because of its unique positioning, partly in Europe and partly in Asia, it has been used a crossroads between the two continents. Bordering the country is the Black Sea, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Syria. Most of the people speak Turkish and a small minority speak Kurdish, an Arabic language. The primary ethnic group is Kurds. There are six other sizeable, ethnic groups besides them in Turkey.

              Though Turkey is a constitutional republic, with executive representation it has massive problems with corruption in its government. In Turkey, there are restrictions on media reporting, arbitrary killings with political motivations, torture due to politics, suspicious disappearances of political figures, and detention of tens of thousands of people. Turkey’s government was quick to ignore these issues, except for limited actions. This is very destructive to the people because it causes distrust, anger, and fear in the people.

              The solution to Turkey’s and India’s problem of corruption is exposure to the truth to their people. Transparency is needed to rebuild trust and allow the people to construct a plan of how to best handle corrupt people in power. Whistleblowers need to step forward and risks need to be taken in order to get the countries to a state of calm. The citizens need to stand up for their rights with courage.

 

 

 

 

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