Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) former member of parliament Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (C) reacts as he hugs a relative after being released from the Sincan Prison, in Ankara, July 6, 2021. (Photo: Adem Altan/AFP)
A protester confronts police officers preventing the group from marching against the Turkish government’s decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention, in Istanbul, July 1, 2021. (Photo: Kemal Aslan/AP)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center left, greets US President Joe Biden, center right, during a plenary session during a summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 14, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AP)
Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Sedat Onal, seated second right, meets with Hamdi Sanad Loza, Egyptian deputy foreign minister at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, May 5, 2021. (Photo: Nariman El-Mofty/AP)
People sit on the beach in Kilyos, northern Istanbul, Thursday, April 29, 2021, a few hours before the start of the latest lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus in Turkey. (Photo: Emrah Gurel / AP)
HDP officials during a press conference before the April 26, 2021 trial in Turkey over party members’ support for the Kobani protests. (Photo: Mezopotamya Agency)
Riot police officers stand at the entrance of a courthouse in Ankara, Turkey during the trial of 475 defendants, including generals and fighter jet pilots accused in the 2016 failed coup attempt, Nov. 26, 2020. (Photo: AP)
