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 2018, the ECtHR rendered 3128 judgments against Turkey, establishing...Read More...
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 char...Read More...
Turkey has been going through a catastrophic period since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and launch of a corruption probe into President Erdogan’s family and members of his cabinet in December of the same year...Read More...
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...
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...
The State of Emergency (SoE), which was declared in the aftermath of the controversial coup attempt of 15 July 2016, was lifted on 18 July 2018. But its end does not mark the return of the rule of law in ...Read More...
Leighann Spencer, rights defender and editor of platformpj.org wrote the inadequacies of the ECtHR vis a vis Turkey. In her article "The ECtHR and Post-coup Turkey: Losing Ground or Losing Credibility?" p...Read More...
Following the constitutional amendment in 2017, the very first presidential and parliamentary election was held on 24 June 2018 by means of a snap election, which secured Erdogan the presidency and his party AK...Read More...
Erdoğan’s Novelty: Setting the Repression It is beyond doubt that an autocrat should have a variety of tactics so as to keep his time-horizon as broader as possible. In one hand, he should allow el...Read More...
In the late spring of 2013, Istanbul was aflame in an intoxicating, revolutionary atmosphere. What started as an environmentalist sit-in protest against the destruction of the last green space in Taksim Square...Read More...
