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Emma Sinclair-Webb

Emma Sinclair-Webb

Turkey Director Follow @esinclairwebb

Emma Sinclair-Webb, senior Turkey researcher with the Europe and Central Asia division, joined Human Rights Watch in 2007. She has worked on issues including police violence, accountability for enforced disappearances and killings by state perpetrators, the misuse of terrorism laws, and arbitrary detention. She was researcher on Turkey for Amnesty International from 2003-2007, and previously worked in publishing as a commissioning editor on books on history, culture, and politics in the Middle East and southeast Europe. She has degrees from Cambridge University and Birkbeck College, London, and speaks Turkish.

Articles Authored

  • April 17, 2017 Dispatches

    Turkey Yes Vote Gives Enormous Power to President

  • July 22, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Turkey’s State of Emergency

  • November 2, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: How Can Turkey’s New Government Bring Stability?

  • October 29, 2015 Commentary

    No, EU, Turkey Is Not Safe for Everyone

    Published in Zeit Online
  • October 28, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Pulling the Plug on Critical Broadcasting in Turkey

  • October 23, 2015 Commentary

    No, EU, Turkey Is Not Safe for Everyone

    Published in openDemocracy
  • September 11, 2015 Commentary

    Turkey: media crackdown amid escalating violence

    Published in Open Democracy
  • June 8, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Turkey’s General Election

  • May 28, 2015 Commentary

    For Judges Who Defy Turkey’s Leaders, Short Road to Jail

    Published in openDemocracy
  • May 13, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Justice for Turkish Mine Disaster Victims

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Reports Authored

  • September 29, 2014

    Turkey’s Human Rights Rollback

    Recommendations for Reform

  • September 3, 2012

    Time for Justice

    Ending Impunity for Killings and Disappearances in 1990s Turkey

  • November 1, 2010

    Protesting as a Terrorist Offense

    The Arbitrary Use of Terrorism Laws to Prosecute and Incarcerate Demonstrators in Turkey

  • December 5, 2008

    Closing Ranks against Accountability

    Barriers to Tackling Police Violence in Turkey

  • November 26, 2008

    Stuck in a Revolving Door

    Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union

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