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 Puts...Read More...
Turkey’s scoreboard of massive human rights violations looks ever worst even after two and a half year since the failed coup. Once a promising EU candidate and rising star of the NATO alliance, Turkey now move...Read More...
Following the coup attempt in Turkey on 15 July 2016, a state of emergency (OHAL - in Turkish) was declared on 21 July 2016. On 23 July 2016, the first legislative decree, Emergency Decree Law (EDL) No. 667, wa...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...
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...
By MESUT AKMAN On 14 July 2017, the Turkish Ministry of Justice declared in its press release that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dismissed over 12600 applications against Turkey jus...Read More...
by IHSAN GUMUS Burning heretics with low cost All the doors are being closed to their faces. This may suit best to describe harsh conditions under which victims of the “state of emergency”...Read More...