Report alleges serious setback for democracy as 40000 removed from jobs and police and media figures imprisonedTurkey’s government is inflicting “systematic human rights violations” on its judiciary,police and media, according to a scathing report by senior British lawyers that was commissioned by one of president Erdogan’s exiled opponents.
The critical, and 95 page-long survey alleges that the AK party government has interfered to produce “supine” courts,censored websites, restricted freedom of expression, and stifled corruption investigations and subjected detainees to degrading treatment.
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Source: theguardian.com