Human Rights Violations in Turkey Rising to the Level of Crimes Against Humanity

This report aims to elicit and analyze the outrageous acts and/or omissions of the Turkish
authorities against individuals –whom they claim are affiliated with, connected to, or members of
the Gulen Group– within the legal purview of crime against humanity. Given the scattered settings
of crimes against humanity, the report first compiles the treaty law, case law and customary
practice with regard to those crimes in order to reveal the elements of crimes. Thereupon, it applies
those elements within a context in which individuals allegedly related to the Gulen Group have
been persecuted through various acts or omissions imputed to the Turkish authorities. The report
also examines the contextual element and scrutinizes whether the associated crimes have been
committed ‘as part of a widespread or systematic attack’ directed against the Gulen Group.