Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed the country's Foreign Ministry to send ambassadors of 10 countries.
Of these, 7 NATO member states called for the release of human rights defender Osman Kavala from prison.
This is reported by the Daily Sabah. We are talking about the ambassadors of the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. Only Finland, Sweden and New Zealand are not included in NATO from the list.
On October 18, the embassies of these states in Turkey published an appeal to the Turkish authorities demanding the release of Osman Kavala, who was arrested in 2017. After the publication, the Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the ambassadors of trying to interfere in the internal affairs of the country.
The Turkish authorities consider Kavala to be involved in the mass protests around Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2017 and the attempted coup a year earlier. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights found no solid evidence of the detention of a human rights defender.
