JUDICIARY | Platform for Peace and Justice

[OPINION] Ask Spano about Turkey’s persecuted judges

Ugur Tok

31/05/2020

Robert Spano, new president of the European Court of Human Rights gave an online interview to Mikael Rask Madsen. The interview is followed by a series of questions sent by online audience. It was not a surpris... Read More...

[ANALYSIS] Why Should Not The ECHR Accept The Turkish Constitutional Court As An Effective Remedy?

PPJ

31/10/2018

The independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Turkish judiciary have been in a dramatic decline especially since the coup attempt in July 2016 and the following state of emergency regime and therea... Read More...

[REPORT] TURKISH CRIMINAL PEACE JUDGESHIPS

PPJ

02/09/2018

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). The CPJ was established in June 2014 with th... Read More...

[OPINION] Turkey’s Justice Scoreboard Terrifies

Ugur Tok

15/03/2018

In the recently published World Justice Project 2017-2018 Rule of Law Index, Turkey’s scores continued to decline and the country dropped to the 101st rank among 113 countries. Meanwhile, in the field of chec... Read More...

[REPORT] The most comprehensive report on the Turkish judiciary is updated

PPJ

01/03/2018

PPJ- 1 March 2018 Platform for Peace and Justice has updated its report entitled "Non-Independence and Non-Impartiality of the Turkish Judiciary" which was first published in 2017. Including the recent d... Read More...

[NEWS] EP members urge the Turkish Criminal Court to implement the decision of the Supreme Court on Alpay and Altan

PPJ

13/01/2018

Rebecca Harms together with other Members of the European Parliament and of the EP-Turkey Forum has issued a statement concerning the refusal of the local courts to respect the ruling of the Turkish Constitutio... Read More...

[OPINION] Strange Case of Akay: Bylock, Turkey’s Coup and Rwanda’s Genocide Trial

PPJ

31/12/2017

By EMRAH AKSU During the last four years, the erosion in the law system of Turkey has increasingly become much more apparent and catastrophic. Every occasion of arbitrary practice of law enforcement... Read More...

[OPINION] Thousands of judges still in jail. 680 of them kept in solitary confinement

PPJ

28/11/2017

By MELIS TON Arrest warrants were issued for 2,745 judges and prosecutors just one day after the 15th of July controlled coup attempt, when even the names of the soldiers who took part in the attempt wer... Read More...

[OPINION] Right to Defence is Abolished Under The State of Emergency in Turkey

Levent Yildirim

14/09/2017

By LEVENT YILDIRIM Only one day before their court hearings, lawyers of Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca, the jailed hunger strikers of Turkey, have been arrested. The warrants were issued for 18 lawyers... Read More...

[OPINION] Sad Story of Independence and Objectivity of the 16th Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation

Levent Yildirim

13/09/2017

By LEVENT YILDIRIM It has often been stated in the articles written so far that there has not been a court verdict acknowledging the existence of a terrorist organization called “FETO/PDY”. Nothing has c... Read More...

[INTERVIEW] Meşale Tolu : Man kann all das erleben, aber man kann weitermachen!

[Interview] Shahnura Kasim: Xinjiang- es gibt dort nicht nur ein Lager, sondern Dutzende!

[INTERVIEW] Mesale Tolu: You can experience all that, but you can go on!

Çiler Ilhan on Women’s Rights

Local Elections in Turkey are of Vital Importance

Kati Piri “Erdoğan has all the power possible, but he still blames others for the economy”

Kati Piri: “Our red line on Turkey has been crossed, and that is how we have ended up with our position today ”