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"Tulkey should not be arresting and exP€ ing res€archers lookint into Po§sibie human rithts
abu§es," said Holly Caİtrüer, EuroPe and cenhal Asia directoİ at Human Ri8hts watch. ''The desire
to coveİ uP human ri8hts abuses is evidmtly still very stron& despite rccent moves towards ftorc
accountability in Turkey's bid for membershiP in the EuroPean Union.''

Human Ri8hts watch caİled on üe Turkish auüorities to halt the deportation and allow the
or8anization to continue its reseaİch.

The reseaIcheı Jonathan Su8deİ! was detained by retular Police in the toıaaı of Bintol, in

sorıtheastem Turkey, on the moming of APril 12, 2006. He had been documenting abus€s in üre alea
alle8edty carried out by Turkish
ParamiIitaİy Poiice, knoran as üe 8endame, ane the ü[ate guaId.
He was first moved to the town of Ma|atya and latel taken to Istanbır, where he is expectd to
§Pend the night in police cüstody befoIe beint dePorted to London on APril 13.

sugd€n is a U.K. national and flueİıt Turkish speaker wiü moİe than two decades of exP€rience
monitoing human rithts in Turkey. The Turkish authorities have ctaimed that su8den did not have
Üden was pİes€nt
valid authorization to be carrying out human ri8hts work in Turkey. However,
in the country on a tourist visa, which Turkish authorities had confirmed proüdes"a legıtımate basis
for him to carry out reseafch in the country, as it is and has been for ani human ri8hts lawyer or
dele8ation caİryin8 out similaı woIk. ln recent years, sugden has Eaveled repeatedli to ıurtey on
such a visa to perfom res€arch, with the l..nowledge of ihe Turkish authori;es and without being
detain€d.

"This is not about a visa,'' §aid cartn€I. ''It is about üe Turkish govemment wanting to pIevmt
:::.,l9:::T"r.-':".nduct by_its agmts. The human nghts situation nua u""n .l"-ıy'l-p'.",i.,c,
büt this is a big step backwards,''

_ There has been a recent uPsurge of violence in southeastem Turkey between s€paİatist rebels of
üe kurdish workers' party (pkk) and Turkish security forces. Hundreds of thousands of kurdish
villaters İemain di§Placed from üe İegio& and the threat of violence ftom üIlage
tuards against
these villagers remains an imPortant obstacle to thefu refum.

Last weel, folloırint t}ıe nıneral of PKK r€bels who had been kiiied by Turkish s€curjty foİceş
kurdish demonstratoıs clashed r^,ith riot police in the souüeastem city of Diyaıbakir, as welt as in
Batman, Kiziltepe, Nusaybiİ! siirt and otheİ towrıs in the İe8ion. p-t""t i"".." violent, with
protesters üfowing Molotov cocktails and stones at law enJoicemeııt officials. ln respons€, law
enforcement officials aPPear to have us€d excessive and disproPortionate force in IesPondint to the
rioters. At least 13
P€oPle are b€lieved to have been kined. M-any other protesters,'as weıl as taw
eİıforcement officers, were injured duIins üıe clashes. Hundreds of demonstrators were aetained,
and there have been cIedible rePorts that many detainees were tottıred or otherwise ill-treated.

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