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Kenan Evren, Turkey?s former coup leader and president, has started receiving Alzheimer?s treatment at a military hospital in the capital Ankara, daily Sabah reported on Feb. 4. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Vice Chairman Sezgin Tanr?kulu has said women lack representation at the Constitutional Court, following the retirement of the sole female at the court due to a restriction on age.

Tanr?kulu also stated that women lack representatives in all fields of life under the current Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule.

Regarding differences and diversity as a potential threat to the Turkish state will make expanding freedoms in the country well-nigh impossible, the head of the Constitutional Court Ha?im K?l?ç has warned.

Head of the Constitutional Court Ha?im K?l?ç has warned that regarding differences and diversity as a potential danger against the state will make expanding freedoms in Turkey impossible.

On Sept. 24, 2012, Turkey allowed its citizens to file individual applications at the Constitutional Court, creating another path to exhaust domestic remedies before applications to the ECHR. As a result, the drop in applications against Ankara at the ECHR appears to be more due to the new, longer domestic process, than it is to improvements in Turkey?s human rights situation. 

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday elected Lozan Panov as chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation.

Panov was elected in a 17-6 vote with no abstentions in the Supreme Judicial Council known by its Bulgarian acronym VSS.

The justice system needs a comprehensive reform, Panov said after being elected for a seven-year term.

The state of freedom in 2014 worsened significantly in many parts of the world, U.S. think-tank Freedom House?s annual report has said, emphasizing the impact President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has had on the decline of democracy in Turkey.

Both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the head of Turkey?s Constitutional Court have denied there is any tension between them, after joining a luncheon hosted by the former at the presidential palace in Ankara.

National Liberal Party (PNL) Co-Chair Alina Gorghiu revealed that Wednesday's consultations with President Klaus Iohannis included a procedure to respond faster to prosecutors' requests of lifting the immunity of MPs under investigation; she said such a project would be important to restore the Parliament's credibility.

The Law on cyber security violates the constitutional provisions regarding the rule of law and the principle of legality, as well as the ones regarding the intimate, family and private life, the secrecy of correspondence, respectively, says the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR).

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