2 Turkish Lawyers Jailed Pending Trial Following Detention in Raids Before NATO Summit - Stockholm Center for Freedom
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More than 600 people, according to different estimates of lawyers' associations, were arrested by the security forces in NATO summit-related operations in the 20 days prior to the meeting of Alliance leaders
The Turkish government is detaining hundreds of activists, journalists and opposition politicians, and recently even comedians are not spared. Despite the NATO summit, the government is not slowing down, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan feels in the saddle of geopolitics.
73 people detained during a protest by left-wing and socialist organizations against the NATO Summit have been referred to the courthouse.
Following the NATO summit in Ankara this week, the Turkish authorities began this Friday to release some of the people who had been arrested in the framework of the security operation deployed before and during the meeting of the alliance leaders. According to the Turkish daily BirGün, 73 demonstrators arrested during a pre-summit protest remained in police custody for three days. This Friday morning they were transferred to the prosecution, gav…
I was invited to the NATO summit—thanks to the UK's Chatham House and the Munich Security Conference. And I truly felt safe when, on the morning of my transfer in Istanbul, Turkish police picked me up. It was the first of three arrests.
The Turkish authorities began today to release hundreds of people who had been arrested before and during the NATO summit held in Ankara, between Tuesday and Wednesday, he released the press.
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