UN says Turkey may be going ‘beyond what is permissible’ on rights

GENEVA: Turkey's detention or suspension of more than 110,000 officials since a failed coup in July, including the arrest of pro-Kurdish lawmakers on Friday, may go "beyond what is permissible", the United Nations' human rights office said on Friday.

"We are concerned that while they have declared a state of emergency and they have declared derogation of certain principles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the steps that the authorities are taking go beyond what is permissible in these cases," UN human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a regular briefing in Geneva.