its legitimate right to bring to justice the perpetrators of the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Turkish authorities have subjected tens of thousands of other citizens of Turkey to detention and criminal prosecutions, with some subjected to official harassment based on specious claims and guilt by association, reflecting a significant deterioration in the respect of the Government of Turkey for the rule of law and the human rights of its people. (11) United States citizen and National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist Dr. Serkan Gölge has spent more than 2½ years in jail in Turkey and is currently serving a 5-year sentence on national security charges without any credible evidence of wrongdoing. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Government of Turkey should immediately release all wrongfully detained locally employed staff of United States diplomatic missions and citizens of the United States in Turkey and resolve such cases in a timely, fair, and transparent manner