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Turkey blasts 'unfounded allegations' in US human rights report

The annual US government report described "significant human rights issues" in Turkey.
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The Turkish government described the Joe Biden administration’s newly released report on human rights abuses around the world as “biased” against Ankara, the latest in the ongoing tit for tat between the two countries. 

The annual report, which the State Department made public Tuesday, compiled a list of “significant human rights issues” in Turkey that included “reports of arbitrary killings, suspicious deaths of persons in custody, forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrest and continued detention of tens of thousands of persons.”

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