This essay is a comparison of India and Turkey of the human rights issues within the countries. In this essay, I also pose a solution. This essay is most relevant to the course, Regional Geography of the Nonwestern World.
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 which 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 area are usually
ethnically connected to Europeans and Indo-Europeans while 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 94 th
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 crossroad
between the two continents. Bordering the country is the Black Sea, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan,
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