Turkish people

Human Rights Action Group is working with Turkish human rights defenders and community organizations, including Northern Justice Watch.

Human Rights Action Group is working with Turkish human rights defenders and community organizations - comprised primarily of expelled former judges, prosecutors and lawyers - to seek justice for the continuing atrocity crimes and human rights violations being committed by the Turkish government, and to seek an end to the ongoing human rights violations in Türkiye. 

There is a serious and worrying escalation of human rights abuses in Türkiye. Since 2016, the Turkish government has detained over 300,000 people, including thousands of prosecutors and judges, and shut down over 2,000 institutions and 131 media outlets. Türkiye detained so many journalists that, for a time, they were the worst jailer of journalists in the world. There is evidence that detainees are tortured and raped, and hundreds have died in prison. Various United Nations mechanisms, including the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the United Nations Human Rights Committee, have found, repeatedly, that Turkish officials are responsible for serious human rights violations.

Impunity is pervasive in Türkiye. Since Turkish law enforcement has been demonstrably unwilling to penalize those responsible for gross human rights violations, Human Rights Action Group is assisting victims in using foreign and international mechanisms to seek justice for atrocities.