We can play hardball, imperial politics in which we define right as what is in our interests at the moment and wrong as what ain't. Or we can take the moral high ground and support human rights and decline to associate with those who do not respect them. The latter is by far the most difficult. If we followed it strictly, we could probably reduce the number of U.S. embassies abroad by about two-thirds. Contact with many so-called allies would have to be cut off.
Human rights get a lot of lip service but very little practice in most parts of the world.
Our own record would not stand a close scrutiny. Nor does it have anything to do with the publicly stated reasons. Turkey is at least bluntly honest. It is not, for example, a good place to try a hunger strike. So far 17 people have died protesting prison conditions with hunger strikes, and the government had made it plain that it doesn't care if all of them die.