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Nedim Türfent: ‘No hope’ for domestic legal recourse in Turkey

Jailed journalist calls on Europe not to bargain with ‘humanity’s most fundamental values’

Nedim Türfent: ‘No hope’ for domestic legal recourse in Turkey

Letter from Nedim Türfent:

“Now you’ll see the power of the Turk! What did this state do to you?” These were the threats hurled by the Turkish Police Special Forces with a deafening howl to some 40 Turkish and Kurdish workers who were lying on the ground in handcuffs following an early dawn raid on a worksite in my hometown, Yüksekova. After I exposed this harrowing scenery with its video footage, both the governor’s office and the Turkish interior ministry opened an investigation about the policemen in the blink of an eye.

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