The report comes in the wake of last week’s demand by Parliament's EPP group for a suspension of accession negotiations with Turkey.
The centre-right group said talks should be suspended immediately due to what it says are rights abuses in the country.
An MEP delegation, including German MEP Elmar Brok, Chairman of Parliament's foreign affairs committee, which was due in Turkey last week to meet the country’s Prime Minister and opposition MPs, was also called off due to “disagreements” over the composition of the party.
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Later this week, MEPs are due to discuss the current situation in Turkey in an emergency debate during their plenary session in Strasbourg. Many MEPs have recently voiced concern at what is widely seen as a deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
This is reinforced by publication on Monday of a report by Intercultural Dialogue Platform,a Brussels based NGO.
The report was written in response to recent events in Turkey - the attempted coup of 15 July and what it calls the “extraordinary purges that are continuing in its aftermath.”
The report says, “With the current government crackdown on the media in Turkey, it is difficult to extract an objective account of events on the night of the failed coup and establish responsibility for them.”
It says, “The failed coup attempt of July 15 was an historic moment for Turkey. Turkish society and the world celebrated the fact that the people had prevented an anti-democratic intervention in the government.
"The Turkish government has every right to pursue these individuals within the law. Those suspected of planning and carrying out actions against the elected government should be investigated and brought to justice.”
The report adds, “The actions of the government in the immediate aftermath of the coup, however, do not constitute a proper or lawful investigation.”
It says the Turkish President is “exploiting the atmosphere of fear and his domination of the media in order to pursue a strategy of disinformation on the Turkish public.”
The report, entitled “The Failed Military Coup and Mass Purges,” says the failed coup appears to be a pretext for widespread abuses, “all taking placed within the borders of Europe.”
There has, it says, been an “alarming rise in wholesale human rights abuses.”
The report examines the Turkish government’s official account of events and some of the “discrepancies” with it.