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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains 12 at human rights meeting in island hotel: Media
2017-07-07
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish police have detained 12 people, including the local director of Amnesia Amnesty International and other human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists, on an island near Istanbul, media said on Thursday, in a move Amnesty branded a "grotesque abuse of power".

The detentions came less than a month after a court ordered the arrest of the chairman of Amnesty's The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
branch, Taner Kilic, on charges of "membership of a terrorist organization" in a crackdown following an attempted military coup in July 2016. Kilic remains in jail pending trial.

Amnesty Turkey Director Idil Eser and the others were taken to a cop shoppe on Wednesday evening after meeting at a hotel on Buyukada, an island just south of Istanbul, Hurriyet newspaper said. It was not clear why they were being held.

Amnesty called for the group's release, saying it was "profoundly disturbed and outraged" at the detentions during a digital security and information management workshop.

Among those detained with Eser were seven human rights defenders, two foreign trainers ‐ a German and a Swedish national ‐ as well as the hotel owner, Amnesty's statement said.

Since the failed putsch, Turkey has incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
more than 50,000 people pending trial and suspended or dismissed some 150,000, including soldiers, police, teachers and public servants, over alleged links with terrorist groups.

The purge has also led to the closure of some 130 media outlets and jailing of 150 journalists and has worried Turkey's Western allies and rights groups, who say President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup as a pretext to muzzle dissent.

More than 240 people were killed in last year's coup attempt, and the government has said the security measures are necessary because of the gravity of the threats facing Turkey.

Amnesty Turkey's chairman was detained in early June with 22 other lawyers over alleged links to the network of Moslem holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, whom Ankara blames for the failed coup.
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