On April 8, Solidarity with OTHERS marked the 7th anniversary of the first mass detention operation carried out in Turkey against people with alleged links to the Gülen movement by releasing a report on the practice of mass detentions that has been systematically implemented since 2014, with a notable intensification since a failed military coup in July 2016.
The report brought together open source data and explored the patterns that point to a political motivation behind the mass detention campaign, echoing a recent UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) opinion which found that the practice may amount to a crime against humanity.
Solidarity with OTHERS has also compiled a detailed database to regularly monitor the mass detentions.
Download the report here