"UN slams Turkey's anti-terror laws, urges reform
February 23, 2006
ANKARA -- Turkey's definition of terrorism is too broad and may lead to the prosecution of people with no direct involvement in terror acts, a UN envoy said in Ankara on Thursday.
Speaking at the end of a one-week fact-finding mission, Martin Scheinin, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter terrorism, singled out for criticism an anti-terror act, passed in 1991, aimed in particular at quelling a bloody Kurdish rebellion in the country's southeast. "
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