HRW Denounces Turkey Arrests Ahead of NATO Summit
Rights groups said 225 people were arrested and 103 jailed pending trial as Turkey intensified terror raids before the NATO summit.
- On Friday, a Turkish court jailed 103 people pending trial on terror-related charges following anti-terror raids on June 23, weeks before the July 7-8 NATO summit in Ankara attended by 32 heads of state, including President Donald Trump.
- Prosecutors targeted 241 individuals, alleging 185 had links to far-left organizations and 56 to the Islamic State, arguing suspects "may carry out terrorist acts in an effort to make Turkey appear as a country known for terrorism."
- Detainees include Yildiz Tar, editor-in-chief of LGBTQ journal Kaos, Ankara University academic Emel Memis, and Nevzat Ozer of the TEMA Foundation, along with 42 volunteers questioned about ties to the banned Communist Party and armed training.
- Human Rights Watch denounced the arrests, stating the "misuse of terrorism laws to conduct mass arrests and silence people in the run-up to a NATO summit flies in the face of the founding values of the alliance."
- Erol Onderoglu of Reporters Without Borders denounced Tar's arrest as "unacceptable," arguing the upcoming summit provides no justification for his "arbitrary" detention on security grounds.
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The Turkish police arrested 103 people on charges of terrorist-related crime, after the mass searches carried out before the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8 July in Ankara. Initially, during the operations of 23 and 24 June, 225 people had been arrested, 26 of whom were placed under house arrest, while the remaining judicial proceedings are still ongoing.
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Of the 225 suspects detained in counter-terrorism operations coordinated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 178 were arrested and sent to prison by the Magistrates' Court.
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