State Department: Καλούμε την τουρκική κυβέρνηση να τερματίσει την παρατεταμένη κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης

Καλούμε την τουρκική κυβέρνηση να τερματίσει την παρατεταμένη κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης δήλωσε την Τετάρτη η εκπρόσωπος του υπουργείου Εξωτερικών Heather Nauert. Αναλυτικά η δήλωση:

… I’d like to turn to Turkey, and that is where we’d like to say that the United States is deeply troubled by the February 1 rearrest by Turkish authorities of the Amnesty International Turkey chairman, Taner Kilic. He’s been in pretrial detention since June of 2017. We’re closely following his case along with those against other respected human rights defenders, journalists, civil society leaders, and opposition politicians whose ongoing prosecution under the state of emergency has chilled freedom of expression and raises serious concerns about respect for judicial independence and the due process protections enshrined in the Turkish constitution.

We call on the Turkish Government to end the protracted state of emergency, to release those detained arbitrarily under the emergency authorities, and to safeguard the rule of law consistent with Turkey’s own domestic and international obligations and commitments.