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PACE Should Bar Turkey From PACE If Ankara Reinstates Death Penalty

© AFP 2023 / Christian LutzGeneral view of the plenary room of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France
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French parliament Foreign Affairs Committee member Thierry Mariani said that the current situation in Turkey in regard to human rights and freedoms should be closely observed amid crackdowns and arrests.

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CRIMEA (Sputnik) — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) should bar the Turkish delegation from participation in the organization if Ankara decides to reinstate the death penalty following a coup attempt that took place this month, French parliament Foreign Affairs Committee member Thierry Mariani, who is also a member of the French delegation to PACE, told Sputnik on Friday.

On July 15, a faction in the Turkish military attempted to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. Following its failure, Ankara launched a large-scale military, governmental, academic and media crackdown. Erdogan also said the country would reinstate the capital punishment if the people demanded this.

"The next meeting of PACE is in October, I hope that before that meeting a position of the Turkish government will be more clear. I was shocked when I saw a list of journalist, newspapers which are now detained or banned. If Erdogan will push thorough a death penalty for those attempted to declare a coup, PACE should bar the Turkish delegation from participation in the organization immediately," Mariani, who is also heading a delegation of French lawmakers on their three-day visit to Crimea said.

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He added that the current situation in Turkey in regard to human rights and freedoms should be closely observed amid crackdowns and arrests.

Over 240 people were killed and more than 2,100 injured during the failed coup attempt in Turkey, excluding the victims among the coup plotters, according to the country's authorities. Turkey has issued decrees to shut down more than 130 media outlets and arrest warrants for 89 journalists as well as fired more than 50,000 judges, civil servants, soldiers and educators in the wake of the failed coup.

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