Tag: European Court of Human Rights

Over 30 civil society organisations and bar associations in Turkey have called for urgent legal reforms to recognise the “right ...

Families of Turkey's disappeared gathered with human rights defenders in several cities on 12 April to demand accountability for those ...

"The right to hope exists, it’s a right,” Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party spoke ...

“The right to hope is not a concept in our legislation,” Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç declared, shutting down discussions ...

The Social Initiative for Peace, led by former European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge Rıza Türmen, has called on ...

Kobani (Kobanê), a Kurdish-majority town in northern Syria, became a global symbol of resistance after it withstood a siege by ...

Human rights advocates and lawmakers in Turkey are calling for reforms to end the no-parole policy for life-sentenced prisoners. A ...

Barbara Spinelli, lawyer and co-president of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy (ELDH), is one of at least 1,500 ...

A new documentary exposes the involvement of Turkish security forces in the 1993 Vartinis Massacre, where nine Kurdish civilians, including ...

The Council of Europe (CoE) has urged Turkey to implement crucial reforms to its legal system, which currently does not ...