With more than 50 thousand political prisoners, Turkey has lost its connection with democracies in the world under Erdogan rule. Since the Gezi…
Robert Spano, chief judge of the European Court of Human Rights, has paid a three-days visit to Turkey on the invitation of the…
Robert Spano, new president of the European Court of Human Rights gave an online interview to Mikael Rask Madsen. The interview is followed…
16 international NGOs urged Turkish Government not to discriminate against political prisoners in its forthcoming early parole bill.
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative, European…
In Turkey, legal conflicts that arise out
of the State’s intervention in the right to property are hardly a new problem.
Between 1959 and…
“For the lifting of Turkey’s two-year state of emergency to have been anything more than a cosmetic exercise, it needed to be accompanied…
Wir haben uns mit der Journalistin Meşale Tolu zum Interview getroffen, um uns über ihr neu herausgekommenes Buch „Mein Sohn bleibt bei mir!“ (Rowohlt Verlag) zu unterhalten. Tolu wurde nach dem Putschversuch 2016 in der Türkei festgenommen und entschied sich, ihren zweijährigen Sohn Serkan mit in die Haft zu nehmen, als dieser die Trennung…
In the follow up to the attempted coup in July 2016, the Turkish government launched an unprecedented attack on press freedom: Thousands of journalists lost of their jobs, hundreds were arrested on terror charges, dozens of media outlets were shutdown and the journalists who remained worked in fear. Turkey is now the largest jailer of…
Turkey has been going through a catastrophic period since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and launch of a corruption probe into President…
Following the coup attempt in Turkey on 15 July 2016, a state of emergency (OHAL - in Turkish) was declared on 21 July…
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[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s this piece was being penned, Turkey, Iran and Russia were winding up their eleventh high level meeting on Syria…
The independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Turkish judiciary have been in a dramatic decline especially since the coup attempt in July 2016…
This Platform for Peace and Justice report provides a comprehensive summary of the lack of independence and impartiality of Turkey’s Criminal Peace Judgeships (CPJ).…
After the Gezi protests in June 2013, Turkey’s strong man President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has changed his path from democracy to an authoritarian…
It has been over a month since the simultaneous presidential and general elections were held in Turkey this year. Now that the dust…
The State of Emergency (SoE), which was declared in the aftermath of the controversial coup attempt of 15 July 2016, was lifted on…
Leighann Spencer, rights defender and editor of platformpj.org wrote the inadequacies of the ECtHR vis a vis Turkey. In her article "The ECtHR…
Following the constitutional amendment in 2017, the very first presidential and parliamentary election was held on 24 June 2018 by means of a…