Following the imprisonment of the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, on 23 March, and the demonstrations that followed, Michael O’Flaherty, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, said on Monday 24 March that he was “following with concern reports of disproportionate use of force by the police and widespread restrictions on the right to receive and impart information in Turkey”.
He calls on the Turkish authorities to “uphold their human rights obligations with...