Human Rights in Turkey - The Right To Life

The Right To Life

The right to life may be threatened by other means than the death penalty. In particular during the 1990s there were many instances of extrajudicial executions, (political) killings by unidentified perpetrators (faili meƧhul cinayetler) and cases of "disappearances".

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