Resurgence & Ecologist readers are being asked to support a Turkish human rights lawyer and journalist at risk of jail amid the wave of arrests and sackings that have followed the attempted military coup in her country in July this year.

Eren Keskin has been a lawyer since 1984, and an active member of the Human Rights Association (İHD) of Turkey since 1986. More than 100 judicial proceedings have been brought against her, which Amnesty International says amounts to judicial harassment. Amnesty – which has condemned the attempted coup – published several appeals on behalf of Keskin after ...

 

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