(IPT) Leaders of American Islamist groups celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, this week by heaping praise on Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey who aims to be a leader of the Sunni world.
“[P]rofound human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people” in Turkey were identified in 2018 by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, “from arbitrary deprivation of the right to work and to freedom of movement, to torture and other ill-treatment, arbitrary detentions and infringements of the rights to freedom of association and expression.”
“Over 100,000 websites were reportedly blocked” during the previous year, it found, and hundreds of journalists were arrested. Roughly 100 pregnant women and new mothers were detained because their husbands allegedly had terrorism connections.
