ABA condemns mass detentions and arrests of Turkish legal community
In the wake of a failed coup attempt by the Turkish military, Turkish president Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan arrested about 3,000 lawyers, judges and journalists in the country without charges or access to counsel. On Tuesday morning, the ABA’s House of Delegates condemned any state’s detention of people without charge or counsel and called for the Turkish government to provide fair hearings, release people detained without evidence of a crime and meet its human rights obligations.
