Abdel Basset Turki was Minister of Human Rights in the cabinet appointed by the Iraq Interim Governing Council in September 2003.[1] He resigned in April 2004 in protest at the deaths of over 600 Iraqis during the siege of Falluja.
In November 2003 Turki demanded access to the captured "Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards", saying they were not all prisoners of war. He condemned human rights violations by US and allied troops in the Combined Joint Task Force 7. He called for victims to be paid compensation.[2]
After the emergence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in May 2004, Turki stated that he had complained to Paul Bremmer, the US head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in November 2003 of human rights violations in Iraqi jails but had "received no answer".[3]
| Preceded by Coalition Provisional Authority |
Minister of Human Rights September 2003–April 2004 |
Succeeded by Bakhtiar Amin |