Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in killing of Kurdish man, dragging of his body behind armored vehicle

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that security forces violated the rights of Hacı Lokman Birlik, a 24-year-old Kurdish man who was killed in 2015 and whose body was dragged behind an armored vehicle. The court found that the authorities violated Birlik’s right to life and the constitutional ban on treatment incompatible with human dignity, according […] The post Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in killing of Kurdish man, dragging of his body behind armored vehicle appeared fi...

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