Turkey's human rights rollback
Subtitle: recommendations for reform
By: [Emma Sinclair-Webb]
Contributors: Ward, Benjamin (Benjamin P.), 1970-; Reidy, Aisling; Porteous, Tom; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781623131968
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Human rights; Politics and government
Other titles: Recommendations for reform; Turkey :
Description: Turkey is undergoing a worrying rollback of human rights. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) under Tecep Tayyip Erdoǧan has shown increasing intolerance of political opposition, public protest, and critical media. Since the beginning of 2014, the government has sought to curb the independence of the judiciary and weaken the rule of law, in an effort to stifle corruption investigations that implicate government ministers and their families. The latest clampdown is part of a wider erosion of human rights including limitations on media freedom, clampdown on protest triggered by the 2013 Gezi demonstrations, and further loss of trust in Turkey's politicized criminal justice system. All of these developments have deepened political polarization in the country. A peace process with the Kurdish population at present offers the greatest possibility for improving Turkey's human rights record, but it may not be sustainable unless the government takes bold steps to address the major rollback on rights. Turkey's Human Rights Rollback identifies reforms needed to support the Kurdish peace process, strengthen the independence of the criminal justice system, combat violence against women and impunity for serious human rights abuses, and improve Turkey's record on free speech, media freedom, and the rights to assembly and association. -- back cover.
Notes: "September 2014"

Human Rights Watch report.

"This report was written by Emma Sinclair-Webb, senior Turkey researcher at Human Rights Watch, reviewed by Benjamin Ward, deputy director in the Europe and Central Asia division, Aisling Reidy, senior legal advisor, and Tom Porteous, deputy program director." -- page 38.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Recommendations; title: I. Improving rights to secure the Kurdish peace process; title: II. Reforming the criminal justice system; title: III. Tackling impunity; title: IV. Protecting free expression, association, and assembly; title: Acknowledgements.