Turkey is going through its worst period in terms of rights abuses since the foundation of the Human Rights Association (İHD), according to İHD head Öztürk Türkdoğan, Hurriyet reports.
“When I was announcing the 2016 report in the beginning of April, I said ‘I’m revealing the worst rights violations report since 1999.’ However, our former head Hüsnü Öndül warned me that this period is the worst in terms of violations including the former state of emergency period,” Türkdoğan told daily Cumhuriyet.
When asked about the areas in which abuses took place the most, Türkdoğan noted that there were serious violations in the category of extrajudicial executions.