Both the sentence of Turkish Cypriot journalist Sener Levent to prison by the Ankara Criminal Court and the conviction of Turkish activist Osman Kavala prove that authoritarianism has become synonymous with the Turkish regime and that it is far from becoming a democratic country under the rule of law, the Democratic Rally said in a statement.
This course of Turkey, it adds, iscompletely inverse to the safeguarding and implementation of human rights and international conventions that must be respected by a country acceding to the European Union.
"We stand with both the relevant European institutions and the Council of Europe who have called for the release of Kavala and with our Turkish Cypriot compatriot Senner Levent in his struggle for vindication against the authoritarian regime of Tayyip Erdogan," the statement concludes.
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