Emma Sinclair-Webb
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
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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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October 28, 2022
Turkey Jails Another Human Rights Defender
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April 13, 2020
Turkey Seeks Power to Control Social Media
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March 23, 2020
Turkey Should Protect All Prisoners from Pandemic
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June 25, 2018
Erdoğan Wins Turkish Presidency Again
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January 22, 2018
Activist Detained in Turkey for Tweets
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October 27, 2017
Civil Society on Trial in Turkey
Reports Authored
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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