Emma Sinclair-Webb is the Turkey director of

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. She regularly appears in international media with commentaries and reports on the human rights situation in Turkey, especially since

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became head of state.

Career

Sinclair-Webb holds a degree from the

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and a PhD from the Department of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College with a thesis on religious and urban conflict. She speaks Turkish. She taught cultural studies and humanities at

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and also worked as an editor in the publishing industry in the areas of history, culture and politics of the Middle East. From 2003 to 2007, she worked as a researcher at Amnesty International specializing in Turkey, before joining Human Rights Watch in 2007 as ''a Senior Turkey Researcher'' in the Europe and Central Asia Department. Here she worked on issues such as

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, state-sponsored killings and enforced disappearances, as well as the misuse of terrorist laws. She later became Turkey director of the human rights organization. In 2016, Sinclair-Webb lived in Istanbul.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

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Reports and articles

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References

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