European Convention on Human Rights

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Yonko Grozev as a judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in respect of Bulgaria on Tuesday.

Grozev was elected with an absolute majority for a non-renewable term of nine years, winning 108 out of the 202 votes that were cast in total.

STRASBOURG - The decision on participation of a judge from Serbia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will be adopted at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday, head of the standing delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandra Djordjevic said and noted that one of the most important matters for Serbia would be th

The Justice Ministry has described the killing of 34 villagers by a Turkish military airstrike in 2011 in the southeastern province of ??rnak as a ?mistake,? though it was not necessarily an ?unfair use of force.?

He is an academic from the prestigious Political Sciences Department of Ankara University. His name is Bar?? Ünlü. The conservative Islamist daily newspaper Akit and its newer version, Vahdet, have already targeted him. Not only do these ?newspapers? not like Ünlü, neither does the state.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Turkey must pay a fine of 2,720 euros for its refusal to allow a single mother to have her forename entered on the personal documents of her adopted son, in place of the child?s biological mother.

The European Court of Human Rights has found Greece guilty of mistreating 14 irregular migrants from Iran, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Nigeria and China.

Greece has been ordered to pay a combined total of 134,000 euros in damages and costs after the court deemed it breached Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment.

My wife Tansu and I were one of the earliest participants in the Paris march the other day and were therefore able to get right beside the statue in Republique Square.

The first thing that attracted my attention was this: The atmosphere was such that the immigrants climbed the platform of the sculpture before the French.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey 60,000 euros in fine for non-pecuniary damage in a lawsuit launched by two applicants for ill-treatment in detention in 2002, after they took a neighbor who had been shot in the street to hospital when they were minors. The ECHR also fined Turkey 5,600 euros for costs and expenses.

The European Union should sign up for the European Convention on Human Rights, but recent negative advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union is worrying, according to Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland.

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan would not leave prison even if he was released, Selahattin Demirta?, the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has quoted him as saying.