The New York Times: Rights Groups Accuse Turkish Police of Excessive Force Against Protesters
Turkish riot squads fired enormous amounts of tear gas, often at close range in confined spaces, and used other types of disproportionate force in their tactics to crush the antigovernment protests that erupted last month in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities, an alliance of international medical rights groups said in a report released Friday. The report, which cast a new [...] → Read the full article…