European Convention on Human Rights

Long-term military curfews constitute a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, former European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge R?za Türmen has told daily Radikal, amid continued curfews in a number of towns in southeastern Turkey.

The Justice Ministry is preparing a report for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the situation in southeastern towns where clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) continue to rage under military curfews. 

Solving the Kurdish issue is not easy. Wisdom and moderation call for a peaceful solution.  

From this general viewpoint, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) says the state should settle with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to bring an end to bloodshed. 

This has been tried already.

1) Kurdish issue evolves from peace process to terror fight

The Kurdish issue, one of the most violent problems in Turkey which has taken thousands of lives since the early 1980s, transformed from "peace process talks" into the "fight against terrorism" in Turkey's southeast in 2015, with a large number of security forces, militants and civilians killed.

The People's Democratic Party (HDP) has insisted on self-rule in southeastern Anatolia as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu canceled a meeting with the party over the constitution, accusing the HDP of violence.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has ruled out discussions over the preparation for a new constitution with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu as long as clashes and curfews in southeastern Turkey continue.

The Turkish government believes it must complete ongoing military operations in the southeastern Anatolia region against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) by spring at the latest if it does not want to lose support for its actions.

A local court has decided to confiscate books by two prominent Turkish journalists after they were found during an operation on a cell where suspected militants of the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) were detained. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) fined Turkey 8,000 euros, finding it guilty in the case of a life-sentenced convict who had no prospects of conditional release.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts. 

The law, published on Dec. 15 on the government website, enables the Russian court to overturn decisions of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if it deems them unconstitutional.