The Council
of Europe’s (CoE) Congress of Local and Regional Authorities will be monitoring
the mayoral election in İstanbul slated for June 23, Deutsche Welle Turkish
service...
Secretary-General of the Council of Europe
(CoE) Thorbjørn Jagland has written a letter to the head of Turkey’s election
authority telling him that prevention of democratically...
A delegation from the Congress
of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CoE) will be
observing local elections on March 31 in Turkey,...
Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has announced her decision to intervene in a case against jailed Turkish rights activist...
Abdullah Bozkurt
The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy, the...
by Abdullah Bozkurt
The regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has locked up almost 600 lawyers, was apparently irritated when the Parliamentary Assembly...
Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, in reference to arrests in Turkey, has said journalists and members of Parliament are priorities...
The Council of Europe’s constitutional law experts, the Venice Commission, warn against a one-person regime in Turkey in a definitive, as-adopted, opinion on proposed...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday that Turkey would not recognize reports of the Venice Commission, an advisory body of constitutional law...
by Abdullah Bozkurt
The Council of Europe (CoE), Europe’s largest intergovernmental body advocating democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, is facing a historic...
