🗞 Turkey accused of violations of human rights by the UN

Sexual harassment or torture of prisoners as well as arbitrary arrests of suspects by Turkey were reported by the UN. Hence hundreds of thousands of men and women have been victims of human rights violations.

Serious allegations has been made against Turkey by the Human Right Office in Geneva.
The violations range from the restriction of the right to work, freedom of expression to random arrests and ill-treatment. Police, military forces and security forces are involved in the beating, torture, sexual assaults and electric shocks or waterboarding of prisoners.

Around 160,000 people were arrested in recents months after the attempted coup on the government in 2016.152,000 officials has been dismissed from the government. On top of it a hundred pregnant women or women were arrested shortly after childbirth because their men are terrorist suspects. "This is just scandalous, very brutal and really has nothing to do with making the country safer," according to the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UNO Said Raad al-Hussein.

104 victims, relatives and eyewitnesses has been asked for the report. Only verified information were documented in the report. Many of the repressions cannot be justified as being a threat to the country. "This seems to indicate that the state of emergency is used to suppress any form of criticism or disagreement with the government."

The report has been rejected byTurkey with sharp words. They accused the Commissioner to support terrorism. The report is full of "distorted, biased and false information" and is "unacceptable" for the Turkish Government. UN High Commissioner al-Hussein had prepared the text supposedly in "Cooperation with Terror Organisations ". The United Nations became a "collaborator of terrorist organizations." under the reign of High Commissioner al-Hussein.

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Source: AFP, Reuters

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