Brussels, 26/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - The police crackdown on anti-government protestors in Turkey this June constitutes a serious threat for human rights, and it is time the Turkish police paid more respect to those rights, the Council of Europe declared on Tuesday 26 November.
In June, Turkey was the theatre of a political battle unprecedented since the arrival in power, in 2002, of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Two and a half million people took to the streets to denounce the...