(with Emma Sinclair-Webb) Turkey’s political atmosphere shapes rights violations

Host: Cansu Çamlıbel | Guest: Emma Sinclair-Webb


In this twelfth episode, host Cansu Çamlıbel and her guest Emma
Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director for Human Rights Watch (HRW),
discussed Turkey’s free expression violations as part of wider
human rights problems and the polarized political atmosphere that
shapes the rights violations.


According to Sinclair-Webb, Turkey already has so much on its
plate in terms of human rights problems. The coronavirus pandemic
only added to that and shows how the Turkish government
instrumentalized a public health crisis to violate many rights.


From the parole law in March to the social media regulation in
October, Sinclair-Webb stressed that the government has used its
parliamentary majority to rush through highly problematic laws
that have only broadened the human rights problems in the
country. 


Topics covered in the podcast include:


The link between political rhetoric and human rights
violations

Lack of access to official data on human rights violations

Social media law and other problematic laws that deepen
Turkey’s free expression problems

Rights violations left uninvestigated in southeastern Turkey

Problems journalists reporting on the rights violations face



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