Turkey is facing difficult times, really difficult times. The numerous earthquakes which struck ten provinces in the southeastern part of the country killed tens of thousands, made 1.25 million homeless and destroyed entire cities. Pre-earthquake Turkey was already amid a crippling economic crisis, rapidly eroding the country’s middle class, typified by high inflation (85 % in 2022). If all this was not bad enough, the country is now under a different but not altogether unfamiliar spotlight: The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has been asked to investigate the extent to which the Turkish government has committed crimes against humanity.
To recap, the ICC is a “permanent international court established to investigate, prosecute and try individuals accused of committing the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole: the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.” According to the Guardian newspaper, legal experts are accusing the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan of having carried out “torture, state-sponsored kidnapping, and wrongful imprisonment of about 200,000 people.” .............To Read More....
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