Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Will Turkey let UN officials snoop in the southeast?

AMBERIN ZAMAN for Al-Monitor The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is demanding that Turkey allow UN officials to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the war-ravaged southeast of the country.

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