MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Moscow urges Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to stop human rights violations, a Russian human rights ombudsman said Tuesday.
"Stop massively and roughly violating the human rights and international law," Konstantin Dolgov, a special representative for human rights at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said on his Twitter account.
Since mid-January, groups of Syrian refugees, including children and women, have been forcibly and illegally rounded up and expelled to Syria by the Turkish authorities, according to Amnesty International’s Director for Europe and Central Asia.
According to the rights group, all forced returns to Syria are illegal under Turkish, EU, as well as international law, especially in light of violations the Turkish authorities commit by forcing small children without parents, pregnant women, sick people back to Syria.
