Emma Sinclair-Webb
Emma Sinclair-Webb is the Turkey director of Human Rights Watch. She regularly appears in international media with commentaries and reports on the human rights situation in Turkey, especially since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became head of state.
Career
Sinclair-Webb holds a degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the Department of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College with a thesis on religious and urban conflict. She speaks Turkish.She taught cultural studies and humanities at Middlesex University and also worked as an editor in the publishing industry in the areas of history, culture and politics of the Middle East.
From 2003 to 2007, she worked as a researcher at Amnesty International specializing in Turkey, before joining Human Rights Watch in 2007 as a Senior Turkey Researcher in the Europe and Central Asia Department. Here she worked on issues such as police brutality, state-sponsored killings and enforced disappearances, as well as the misuse of terrorist laws. She later became Turkey director of the human rights organization.
In 2016, Sinclair-Webb lived in Istanbul.