Turkiye Widens Pre-NATO Summit Crackdown with Nationwide Detentions

El Pais

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Western partners have stopped criticizing Erdogan's authoritarian drift, aware of Turkey's growing importance for the Atlantic Alliance

Svenska Dagbladet

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Ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, hundreds of arrests have been made, including journalists, around 50 elderly environmentalists and a very popular comedian who is facing prison on charges of insulting religion and President Erdogan.

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CHP Mersin MP Ali Mahir Başarır, commenting on the detentions made before the NATO Leaders Summit to be held in Ankara, said, "In America, Trump is protested against more easily, but not in Türkiye."

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Hundreds of lawyers, opponents, students and journalists were arrested by order of President Erdogan

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Two days before the launch of the NATO summit in Ankara, several journalists and human rights activists were arrested again. According to the government-critical newspaper Cumhuriyet, the arrests took place in several Turkish provinces. NGOs and the opposition were strongly critical.