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Turkey monitors express ‘serious concerns’ ahead of 2019 elections

Saturday, April 7th, 2018 Tags: , , , , ,
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The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), have expressed serious concern over the deterioration of the situation in Turkey ahead of the forthcoming 2019 elections. Speaking at the end of a fact-finding visit to the country from […]

Turkey: co-rapporteurs ask for immediate release of arrested human rights defenders

Friday, July 7th, 2017 Tags: , , , ,
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PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), have expressed serious concern at the arrest of several prominent human rights defenders in Istanbul on 5 July, including Amnesty International Director Idil Eser. “These arrests, which took place during a training seminar on human rights defenders, are […]