Turkey: Fear for safety, Orhan Kemal Cengiz (m)

Index Number: EUR 44/002/2008
Date Published: 13 February 2008
Categories: Turkey

Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a lawyer, human rights defender and newspaper columnist, has been threatened and intimidated because of his legal work on behalf of one of three men killed in an attack at a Christian publishing house in April 2007. He has asked the authorities to provide him with a bodyguard to protect him. The authorities have not yet granted this request.