...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
had violated the rights of more than 400 judges and prosecutors by holding them in pre-trial detention in the wake of the 2016 coup attempt and ordered Ankara to pay compensation.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously that Turkey violated the rights of 427 judges and prosecutors "on account of the unlawfulness of the initial pre-trial detention of the applicants."
The judges and prosecutors were arrested as part of a purge across Turkey’s government institutions and military after the failed coup against President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important..., that Ankara blamed on the Gulen movement: a transnational religious movement, led by Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
More than 4,000 judges and prosecutors were accused of membership in the Gulen movement, named a terrorist organization in Turkey, and dismissed from their posts. The majority of them were subsequently convicted on the terror charge.
The court ordered Turkey to pay each applicant 5,000 euros in damages.
Turkey has not immediately commented on the ruling.
Ankara has ignored several recent European court decisions against it, namely in the cases of tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas and philanthropist Osman Kavala. Last year, the human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
court ordered the "immediate release" of Demirtas who has been imprisoned since 2016 on charges of ties with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The Council of Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
has said that if Ankara fails to comply with a 2019 court order to release Kavala pending trial, it would take action, including possibly suspending Turkey’s voting rights or membership.
Ankara is continuing its crackdown on the Gulen movement. On Tuesday, security forces arrested 132 people suspected of having links to the group, Anadolu Agency reported.
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