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Human Rights Day: Turkey's human rights record at home and abroad

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. HALC’s Managing Director Georgia Logothetis joins me today to discuss Turkey’s human rights record both at home and abroad. 

You can read the articles we discuss on The Daily Roundup here: 

Turkey’s Government Wants Silicon Valley to Do Its Dirty Work

Human rights groups detail 'war crimes' in Nagorno-Karabakh

USCIRF Commissioner on human rights violations in Turkish controlled Syria

EU leaders back deal to end budget blockade by Hungary and Poland

EU Leaders Approve $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Backed by Joint Debt

Exclusive-U.S. set to sanction Turkey over Russian defense system

PM says EU credibility is at stake over tensions with Turkey

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