U.N. rights chief questions due process in Turkey purges

By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced deep concern on Monday at mass arrests and sackings of public employees in Turkey and the renewed state of emergency there, saying a “climate of fear” now reigned.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told a news conference in Geneva that Ankara had to respond to violent attacks but must not violate human rights while doing so.
Turkey expelled more than 3,900 people from the civil service and mil