Turkey violates human rights everyday and Erdogan's crimes increased

 A tribunal will be held in Geneva next September on the human rights violations committed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government.

Turkey Tribunal, a not-for-profit human rights organization registered in Belgium, will hold the session on September 21 and 25.

"The tribunal is not a legally binding body. But the ruling of the tribunal will have high moral authority," Turkey Tribunal said in a press statement.

Turkey Tribunal was founded by the Belgium-based Van Steenbrugge Advocaten (VSA) law firm that has handled various cases for Turkish citizens in international courts.

Reports detailing torture, systems of impunity against torture and mistreatment, the situation of lawyers and medical assistance for the imprisoned or detained in Turkey will be presented.

Several international organizations have called on the tribunal to address the Turkish military’s war crimes in Syria and Libya, as well as successive Erdogan governments’ links with terrorist groups.

Turkey Tribunal has tackled major cases, defending Turkish citizens, whose rights are being violated by their own government, before international courts.

The tribunal's judges consist of: Françoise Barones Tulkens, former judge and vice president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Johann van der Westhuizen, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Elisabeth Abi, former deputy executive secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Giorgio Malinverni and Ledi Bianku, former judges at the ECHR; as well as John Pace, the former secretary to the Commission on Human Rights.

Several human rights experts and organizations will provide reports to the tribunal, including; Eric Sottas, the former secretary-general of the World Organization against Torture; the Lawyers Collective in Turkey; Sebnem Korur Fincancı, the president of the Human Rights Foundation in Turkey; the Ankara Bar Association; as well as Philippe Leruth, the former president of the International Federation of Journalists.

Turkey has been suffering major rights violations, especially after the alleged failed July 2016 coup against Erdogan.