European Convention on Human Rights

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which focuses on the Kurdish issue, has called on both the government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to silence their arms, saying that dialogue could end the clashes that have stricken the country for the past 14 months.

We are once again face-to-face with a critical question. Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has made a new call again, through his brother. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to effective, independent and prompt investigation into suspicious deaths in two separate cases, issuing a fine of 20,000 euros in each case.

The imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, is "in good health" and has called for an end to the Kurdish conflict, his brother said on Sept. 12 after visiting him in jail.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a woman from the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir who filed a complaint over her husband's suicide in the army. 

The European Court of Human Right (ECHR) has ruled Turkey should pay 14,300,000 Euros in compensation to a Greek-Cypriot woman for violating her property rights.

The number of foreign arrivals visiting Turkey slumped by 28 percent in April to 1.75 million compared to the same month of 2015, marking the steepest decline since May 1999, according to data issued by the Tourism Ministry on May 27.

Almost half of the foreign arrivals were made by day visitors, the data showed.

In its very significant Alevi judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had this sentence in its 66th paragraph: "[...] The state's duty of neutrality and impartiality is incompatible with any power on the state's part to assess the legitimacy of religious beliefs or the ways in which those beliefs are expressed." 

When the time comes and historians decide to write about these days of Turkey, they will end up writing the personal stories of a generation that was born in the early 1990s. You may call them Generation Y, Z etc. They are the "lost souls" of this land, and forever they will be.

A three-member delegation from the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has paid a visit to the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, and held consultations with senior Turkish government officials. The visit was conducted last week to examine the treatment and conditions at the ?mral?