August 15, 2024
Emma Sinclair-Webb
Associate Director and Turkey Director
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Emma Sinclair-Webb, associate director and Turkey director 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
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November 15, 2023
Keep Rights at Center of Turkey/Germany Meeting
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August 5, 2023
Turkey Approves New Coal Mining to Feed Power Plants
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May 12, 2023
How Social Media Became Key in Turkey’s Elections
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April 27, 2023
Turkish Border Guards Torture, Kill Syrians
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April 5, 2023
Turkey: Police and Gendarmerie Abuses in Earthquake Zone
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October 28, 2022
Turkey Jails Another Human Rights Defender
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October 14, 2022
Turkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments
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February 18, 2021
Turkey: Student Protesters at Risk of Prosecution
Reports Authored
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Türkiye: Stonewalling on Charges for Officials in Earthquake Deaths
Authorities Refuse to Provide Information About Investigations
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Turkey: Police and Gendarmerie Abuses in Earthquake Zone
Torture and Other Ill-Treatment, Indifference to Violent Assaults
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Turkey: Crackdown on Independent TV Channels
End Violations of Media Freedom; Annul Abusive Measures; Ensure Impartiality
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Turkey: Opposition Politicians Detained for Four Years
Pattern of Politically Motivated Prosecutions, Detentions
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Turkey: 2nd Politically Motivated Trial for Rights Defender
Osman Kavala Detained, Prosecuted in Defiance of European Court Judgment
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Turkey: Enforced Disappearances, Torture
Investigate Disappearances; End Threats to Detainee and His Family
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Turkey: COVID-19 Puts Sick Prisoners at Grave Risk
Offer Most Vulnerable Inmates Alternatives to Prison
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Turkey: Kurdish Mayors’ Removal Violates Voters’ Rights
End Politically Motivated Arrests and Trials
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Turkey: Baseless Charges Over Landmark 2013 Protests
Indictment of Civic Leader Osman Kavala, 15 Others, in Gezi Park Case
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Turkey: Crackdown on Social Media Posts
Detention, Prosecutions Over Criticisms of Turkish Army Actions in Syria
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Turkey: State Blocks Probes of Southeast Killings
Allow UN to Investigate Cizre Abuses; Repeal New Law to Block Prosecutions
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Protesting as a Terrorist Offense
The Arbitrary Use of Terrorism Laws to Prosecute and Incarcerate Demonstrators in Turkey
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Stuck in a Revolving Door
Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union
