Amal Clooney accused of harbouring vendetta against Turkic countries

Amal Clooney, British human rights lawyer, accused of outraging Azerbaijan by taking on the case of jailed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, according to The Guardian.

Ismayilova, 39, was detained in December 2014 after allegedly prompting a co-worker to attempt suicide but remained in custody even after the charges were dropped, said Media Legal Defense Initiative attorney Nani Jansen.

“We would like to note that Amal Clooney is an ethnic Armenian and she represented Armenian interests in the European court for human rights,” echoed the Haqqin.az news service.

Under the European court rules, Ismayilova’s case must go through the national appeal process before being considered. After being rejected at the Baku court of appeals, Ismayilova’s lawyers filed a case with Azerbaijan’s supreme court and expect to hear back “in two to three months, ” Interfax-Azerbaijan reported.

Since the 2015 Armenian genocide-denial case she led and lost against a Turkish politician attacks were focused on Amal Clooney.

This has led to accusations that the 37-year-old attorney is on an anti-Turkic tirade. “Anti-Turkic activities indeed helped Amal, a Lebanese by origin with close roots to large Armenian community in her motherland, to get distinguished in her lawyer career,” wrote AzerNews. Adding that Clooney’s “anti-Turkic” spree was a “bid to catch up [with] with her husband’s fame.”