Posted on 07/12/2017 4:18:25 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkey's Human Rights Association deputy secretary general in charge of organisation stressed that the Turkish government detained human rights activists to hide the violations in the country.
Turkish government detained human rights activists to hide the violations in Turkey, Human Rights Association’s (IHD) deputy secretary general in charge of organisation Necla Şengül said.
Her remarks came after Turkish police arrested human rights activists in Istanbul, on July 5th. Idil Eser, Amnesty International’s director in Turkey in among the 11 activists arrested.
“The arrested activists are leading experts in human rights. They were deliberately targeted by the government” Şengül said.
Şengül also condemned false reports about the activists by the Turkish media, saying: “The human rights activists were accused for being a spy, being a member of terrorist organization. These are really and only funny claims. Who saw them holding a gun? Who can show us a proof that they committed violent crimes? These are the people who campaigned for Tayyip Erdoğan when he was arrested. If they look at their own past, they will see what these activist did for them.”
Şengül called on the Turkish authorities to immediately release the arrested activists, remarking that the Turkish government is attacking human rights activists in an attempt to hide human rights violations in the country.
Şengül recalled Turkish police raids after the report released by human rights organizations about the massacre in Cizre in 2016, saying: “IHD was subjected to immense pressure. Our representatives in Kurdistan were taken under custody. Some of them were arrested and sent to prison. We can not even get an appointment from government officials. All doors are shut against us.”
Citing the human rights situation in Turkey, Şengül said: “We will release the list of terminally ill patients in prisons. Torture, ill behaviour and violations are on the rise right now. The prisoners are subjected to torture in Edirne, Tarsus, Elazığ and Denizli prisons. These information are hidden from the public. We are the voice of those people. Therefore we know the reason of the government's oppression against us.”
Turkish police detained 11 human rights activist, in a hotel in Büyükada, Istanbul as they gathered for a meeting on July 5th. The arrested activits are Nalan Erkem and Özlem Dalkıran (Helsinki Citizens Assembly), İlknur Üstün (Women's Coalition), İdil Eser and Veli Acu (Amnesty International), Günal Kurşun (Human Rights Agenda Association), Nejat Taştan (Association for Monitoring Equal Rights), Şeyhmuz Özbekli and Ali Garawi, the moderator for the meeting.
The detentions came less than a month after a court ordered the arrest of the chairman of Amnesty's Turkey branch, Taner Kılıç, on the same charge in a crackdown following an attempted military coup in July 2016. Kılıç remains in jail pending trial.
The Kemalists have stated there is no Justice in Turkey now.
That was the point in the Ankara to Istanbul 25 day march.
So, now they act to prevent the Human Rights abuses from being reported to UN monitors? No surprise here.
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Turkey is too islamic to have human rights.
Erdogan is the Islamist Fascist Dictator of Turkey.
He suspended the Legislature, the courts were purged and now give any decree he requests, the rule of law is no more, he has imprisoned all his opposition and indiscriminately shells civilians in villages in his own country and in Neighboring Syria. Anybody anywhere who disagrees with him is suddenly declared a terrorist
In term of human rights, Erdogan is largely irrelevant. No nation with a significant proportion of mohammedans can allow any significant portion of human rights. Their satanic religion doesn't allow for it.
Erdogan the Islamist’s Turkey is in a small class including Iran and Qatar.
I believe that the Kemalists in the 25 day “Justice” march from Ankara to Istanbul and the 2 million at the rally near Istanbul, just fired the first shot across the bow. They marched with only a sign with the word “Justice” (in Turkish).
You notice who he arrested after that, more professors and well known human rights activists.
He did not dare arrest a Kemalist.
Erdogan has imported a bunch of Jihadi’s from the Syrian action area. Imagine having them in Turkey.
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