European Convention on Human Rights

Swiss authorities said on April 27 they had rebuffed a Turkish request to remove a photography installation critical of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdo?an from a public square in front of the U.N. site in Geneva.

"Coward, villain, utterly dark, ignorant, disgusting, traitor, lumpen, tool of the terror organization, immoral, leftover pro-mandate, spoiled soul." If you direct these words at someone, at best, you yourself would be the subject to similar adjectives. At worst, something could be thrown at you, which is a reaction that will totally be tolerated in a society with a tendency for violence.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to pay the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) 1 million euros for pecuniary damages over the confiscation of a substantial portion of the party's assets by the Constitutional Court following an inspection of its accounts for the years 2007 to 2009.

The Turkish president's office has criticized the BBC for an interview with a leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), suggesting that the interview was aimed at portraying the group's "rhetoric as if they are reasonable and legitimate demands."

For us who live in Turkey, our trial with the freedom of expression never ends. Especially after having lived through the deep darkness of the 1980s and the 1990s and having begun tasting the relative freedoms of the 2000s, when we see our freedom of expression issues restarting today, one unavoidably gets desperate. 

Norway violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by exposing him to inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment while serving his prison sentence, a Norwegian court ruled on April 20.

Breivik took Norwegian authorities to court in March, accusing them of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights by keeping him isolated from other prisoners. 

When ?pek Cem Taha, the daughter of a former Turkish foreign minister (who passed away in 2007) decided to initiate a lasting idea to maintain her father's personal commitment for peace, the first door she knocked on was that of Yorgo Papandreu.

A co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has admitted problems with the strategy of declaring autonomy in Southeast Anatolia and the erection of barricades that have resulted in massive battles, while again calling for dialogue to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem.

A day after U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass told reporters on April 7 that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) should lay down arms, he was responded to by a major PKK figure, who said the U.S. should instead put pressure on Turkey. Zübeyr Aydar, a Brussels-based chief of PKK front organization the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), said what the U.S.

The Istanbul Village Heads Solidarity Association has filed a criminal complaint against Turkish cartoon magazine Leman's management and one of its caricaturists over an "insulting" cover, which depicted a village head - allegedly drawn akin to jailed outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan - taking a selfie with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.