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1. Hundreds of Young Turkish Children Jailed Alongside Their Moms as Part of a Post-Coup Crackdown

Feb. 13, 2018

Turkey’s Justice Ministry provided a somewhat lower figure, stating that a total of 560 children under the age of 6 were being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers.Mothers and their children continue to be rounded up with tens of thousands of other Turks following the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The country has, since that attempt, been in a legal “state of emergency,” one that allows the government to jail anyone believed to have ties to exiled clericFethullah Gulen and his Hizmet movement.


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1. UN WOMEN - Phumzile Mlambo , Executive Director of UN Women Twitter: @phumzileunwomen Mailing Address: CSW Communications Procedure Human Rights Section UN Women 220 East 42nd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017 USA E-mail: cp-csw@unwomen.org Phone: +1 646 781-4400 | Fax: +1 646 781-4444 | Official Website: www.unwomen.org - Europe and Central Asia Regional Office Mailing Address: Abide-i Hürriyet Cad. İstiklal Sok., No:11 KEY Plaza Kat:8, 34381 Şişli, İstanbul, TURKEY E-mail: eca.operations@unwomen.org | Website: eca.unwomen.org 2. UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UN HRC) Twitter: @UN_HRC | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHRC Civil Society Section Phone Number: +41 22 917 9656 | E-mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org 3. COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, U.S. HELSINKI COMMISSION Mailing Address: 234 Ford House Office Building, 3rd and D Streets SW, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-1901 |
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