EX LIBRIS: News from the Library
This week and last week, Bilkent University Library has been running a User Satisfaction Survey to collect your views about the Library. We encourage all members of Bilkent community to complete the survey and thereby help us to develop our services and other activities. The Library last had such a survey in 2008, and we hope to compare the results of this previous survey with the new one, and determine how far we have improved over the past 4 years. The survey can be completed online via our website: http://library.bilkent.edu.tr/
Alternatively, printed copies are available in Main and East Campus libraries at the circulation points. Thank you all in advance for your cooperation.
In addition this week, on Thursday, May 5, Prof. Tekin Akıllıoğlu of the Law Faculty will deliver the third and final Library Lunchtime Lecture for this semester, entitled "Cyprus and the European Court of Human Rights." This lecture will examine how the problem of Cyprus has been dealt with by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Northern Cyprus has been the focus of heated debate for over fifty years, and the accession of Cyprus to the EU in 2004 led to the limiting of inter-communal negotiations. Between 1975 and 2000 the Northern Cyprus issue was repeatedly brought before the ECHR, and this created, for the first time, a complex international legal problem. Three main cases (Loizidou vs. TR, Cyprus vs. TR, and Xenides-Arestis vs. TR) underlie the eventual solution: the military intervention of Turkey in 1974 was deemed illegitimate, and thus violations of human rights suffered by Greek Cypriots should be repaired by the respondent state. In his talk, Prof. Akıllıoğlu will offer criticism of the Court's solution in two ways. First, in its decisions the Court should specify positive obligations for both parties. Second, a consideration of comparable international cases indicates that the Court is not consistently systematic in its interpretations and therefore in the resulting judgments. Prof. Akıllıoğlu's lecture will start at 12:40 p.m. on Thursday in the Art Gallery of Main Campus Library. The talk will be in English and lunchtime refreshments will be supplied.