Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday announced an 11-point human rights action plan, pledging to fortify freedoms and legal protections after years of democratic backsliding under his government.
so i m wondering, i know you ve talked to members of congress. right. and you ve gotten support and help there. have you been talking to anyone inside the white house or in the administration? well, i mean, i would love to because i have not reached out to them yet, or they haven t reached out to me yet. if i have a chance, i would love to sit down with mr. trump and talk about how erdogan uses his power to abuse human rights in turkey. and i would love to do that because they know my story because i play in the nba. there are thousands and thousands of stories out there waiting to be heard to be told in turkey, yes. that s why i would love to sit down with mr. trump and talk about these issues. i hope he hears that plea. i hope so. you still have family in turkey. yes, i do. has this put a strain on you and your family there? it s tough because while it was two years ago, the police came to my house and raided my whole house. they took every electronic away
or not. so that s why it s very tough. you were on capitol hill a couple of days ago. what are you asking from the u.s. government? what do you want? i meet with lots of senators and congressmen and they were very helpful. we talk about the extradite. we talk about interpol. we talk about the issues and we talk about the human rights in turkey. and i was very shocked because i was talking about this stuff. they stopped me. they re like don t worry about it. we already know all this stuff. and that made me very happy because all these people, congressmen, senators know about they re aware? yes. they re wear? and you said you feel safe in this country? yes. my last question is i can feel your sadness for your family, your passport has been taken away. you haven t been home since 2015? yes. but you have been so outspoken. yes. about erdogan.
threat by the by the people with whom they doing any kind of reports but some of our journalists might use alias names for their reports and some of them are really in well i won t say in a little bit danger because they re took citizens as we have a german german correspondent any symbol and she s pretty safe the only thing that she has to face is that she s flown out of the country and now is it because she s german images or nationality or certainly the nationality is an issue and our turkish colleagues are really in a kind of that way you know it s unfortunately the case they re gone are going to have w. s turkish service telling us how the w. s trying to help one of its own tonight air con thank you my pleasure are going to take the story now to london i m joined by jim she is a campaigner for human rights in turkey for amnesty international it s good to see you this evening unity w s reporter she s not the only journalist to be targeted by
what we do know is that putin has been elected in their country. and that s not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. phil, it doesn t add up. the vice president is going to be giving a speech on venezuela calling on them to call for free and fair elections in venezuela. so the facts are they are per fblgtly happy to call for that in that case but did not add up to putin. it does add up. if you look at what president trump said since coming into office. horrific if pihilippines, we don t talk about it. general see see, really questionable human rights in turkey, president calls him and gre congratulates him op the election. thes message is simple if you can put a thumb on people and stamp out decent, we don t care