international human rights organization; led with the terrorism-law misuse in pre-summit detentions and called on NATO allies to respond

HRW condemned Turkey's use of terrorism charges against academics, lawyers and civil-society figures in pre-summit sweeps, stating 'the misuse of terrorism laws to conduct mass arrests and silence people in the run-up to a NATO summit flies in the face of the founding values of the alliance.' Named a journalist and LGBTQ activist Yildiz Tar and 14 TEMA Foundation members among those detained.

“The misuse of terrorism laws to conduct mass arrests and silence people in the run-up to a NATO summit flies in the face of the founding values of the alliance.”