Turkey
Nations Online Project
Country Overview
Targeted Groups | Perpetrators | Alert Status | Genocide Stage(s) |
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| Emergency | Stage 5: Organization, Stage 6: Polarization, Stage 9: Extermination, Stage 10: Denial |
Details
Following a failed coup d’état in July 2016, repression of freedom of expression, disappearances, torture, and arbitrary arrests all drastically increased. Journalists and human rights defenders are regularly arrested under dubious charges of “membership in a terrorist organization.” Turkey committed war crimes during its October 2019 invasion of northeast Syria in which its forces targeted Kurdish civilians and fighters that had defeated ISIS in the region. Turkey continues to deny the Armenian, Assyrian, and Pontic Greek genocides perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.
Resources
Why Turkey is Invading Syria
Turkish-backed Rebels Leave Trail of Abuse and Criminality in Syria’s Afrin
Turkey: Erdoğan’s Onslaught on Rights and Democracy