Constitutional Court

Activists in Turkey have gathered along several rivers across the country to make a swan dive in the global “big jump” event calling for the protection of waterways to protest the scores of hydroelectric plant projects (HES) and dams that threaten dozens of environmentally protected or untouched areas.

The remaining two arrested people in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial were released July 11 by a Diyarbakır court, as the hearings will continue.

The same court in the southeastern province had released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the KCK, the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The main opposition party has applied to the Constitutional Court to lift the media blackout on the abduction of 49 Turkish citizens by jihadists in Mosul.

The Constitutional Court of Romania on Wednesday unanimously ruled that there was no juridical conflict of a constitutional nature between the Government and the Presidency over the representation of Romania at a June summit meeting of the European Council.

The ruling is final and generally binding.

A judge in the western province of Aydın has applied to the Constitutional Court to remove the definition of homosexuality as an “unnatural relationship” from an article of the Turkish Penal code, daily Milliyet reported July 8.

First Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) Catalin Predoiu on Monday said, in relation to a recent statement by former national leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Crin Antonescu that PDL should rethink its attitude toward the so-called coup d'etat of 2012, that he cannot lie 'for the sake of political interest.'

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Sunday wrote on his wall on the social networking site Facebook that it was very hard for him two years ago, when President Basescu was suspended by the Parliament, to accept that the vote given by the Romanians in the 2012 referendum was ignored.

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) submitted a bill on July 4 for the “restoration of honor” of purged commanders, academics and public servants who were detained, convicted or suspended in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case.

Liberal (PNL) senator Crin Antonescu on Thursday stated, in response to a statement made by President Traian Basescu that the National Liberal Party (PNL) should publicly regret the "coup d'etat" of 2012, that there was no coup d'etat in 2012 and what is to be remembered of that "dramatic" summer is the people's wish expressed in an "overwhelming referendum."

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yıldırım’s individual appeal on a “rights violation.” The decision was released in the Official Gazette July 2, making the ruling official.