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73-year old human rights advocate detained for opposing Turkey’s Afrin operation: son

73-year old human rights advocate detained for opposing Turkey’s Afrin operation: son

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 15, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

Mithat Can, a 73-year old human rights advocate and the head of Antakya branch of the Human Rights Association, has been detained by Turkish police due to his public statement critical of Turkish military operations in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria....

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