Turkey today called the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights "biased" and "unacceptable", which records "serious" violations related to the state of emergency imposed on the country after the failed military coup. 2016.
"This text, which contains distorted, biased and inaccurate information, is unacceptable to Turkey," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
In a report released today in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that "the regular extension of the state of emergency in Turkey has led to serious human rights violations by hundreds of thousands of people".
It lists among these violations torture, arbitrary detention, arbitrary deprivation of the right to work and freedom of movement, or even insults to freedom of association and expression.
Saying that the UN report "despises the multiple terrorist threats facing Turkey", the Turkish ministry attacks the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zaid Raad Al Hussein, saying that he has "lost all objectivity" regarding Turkey.
"The latest text he has published contains baseless allegations that are in line with the propaganda of terrorist organizations. "This situation is unacceptable," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that Zaid was accused of preparing the report "in collaboration with terrorist-linked circles".