On Thursday police took prominent human rights lawyer and commentator Orhan Kemal Cengiz into custody at Atatürk airport on unknown charges. For four days they have waited in the stone halls of the Istanbul Palace of Justice for news from their detained son, a professional soldier in his early 20s. However, the swift purge did not only target the Turkish military. We simply don’t know.”Reports have started to emerge of ill-treatment and torture of soldiers detained on charges of involvement in the coup plot. My son loves his country Ahmet Yildiz“The coup attempt did a lot of damage to the democratic opposition in Turkey,” said one human rights lawyer.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2016 20:53 UTC