Constitutional Court

In a decision that paves the way for the release of two journalists imprisoned for 92 days, Turkey's top court ruled on Feb. 25 that the rights of daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül have been violated.

Several hundred Macedonian anti-government protesters on Wednesday pelted the Constitutional Court building in Skopje with eggs after judges voted to discuss annulling a provision in the law that bars the President from granting pardons.

They say it will open the way for the President to pardon a number of former senior government officials suspected of organising election fraud.

A draft law on the protection of personal data fails to outline the establishment of an independent oversight body that would guard such data as required by the EU acquis, an official from the bloc has said.

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled the right to life was breached in the death of a one-and-a-half year old boy who was hit by a tear gas canister on the balcony of his house in the Cizre district of southeastern ??rnak province seven years ago.

A court has ruled that a former colonel should receive 53,000 Turkish Liras in compensation for being unfairly jailed in the case into the alleged "Balyoz" (Sledgehammer) coup plot targeting the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Individual applications by jailed Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül have been directed to the general assembly of Turkey's Constitutional Court, with demands that the two men be tried without arrest.  

The applications state that the rights of Dündar and Gül were abused and the earlier decision on their arrest lacked sufficient justification. 

Turkey's social security body will not fund cancer treatment medicines for patients diagnosed with lung cancer who have ever had a smoking habit, according to a new regulation that went into effect on Feb. 3.

The Social Security Institution's (SGK) new regulation requires people with lung cancer to pay for their own treatment medicines if they have a smoking habit.

Opposition parties in Kosovo have called on people to take to the streets again on February 17, when the country will celebrate the eighth anniversary of the declaration of independence.

4.5G will be launched in Turkey on April 1, but there are three main areas in which the technology is problematic in Turkey, according to sector representatives: Base stations, fiber networks and smartphones. 

"He started this process with extreme radical positions but has gained nothing from it," Topic observed.

The President of the Serb-majority entity first launched an initiative for a referendum on the powers of the state court and the OHR last July.