Human Rights Watch: Turkey - COVID-19 Pandemic Used to Strengthen Autocratic Rule
January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (TNSRep) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Jan. 13:
The Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey has enabled the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to deepen autocratic rule by silencing critics and rapidly passing restrictive new laws to limit dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.
In 2020, Turkish authorities used the pretext of the pandemic to ban demonstrations by opposition parties and government cri . . .
The Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey has enabled the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to deepen autocratic rule by silencing critics and rapidly passing restrictive new laws to limit dissent, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.
In 2020, Turkish authorities used the pretext of the pandemic to ban demonstrations by opposition parties and government cri . . .