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Incest could be made legal in Germany following a meeting of the German Ethics Council studying the case of Patrick Stuebing who was adopted and then later fell in love with his biological sister. The couple had four children before Stuebing was imprisoned in 2008 though he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights over his entitlement to a family life in 2012.

After the Suruç terrorist attack on July 20, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu called on political parties to issue a joint declaration. "Right at this moment, as leaders of four political parties, when we are engaged in an effort to form a partnership for government, when we are trying to generate shared wisdom, if we agree that the target of this attack is Turkey and Turkey's democracy, then now

Residents from the municipality of Garmen issued a new ultimatum to Bulgarian authorities on Monday.

The residents tabled a petition with 720 signatures to the Council of Ministers, giving the authorities a deadline of one week to take an action against the illegal Roma dwellings.

Some 150 people protested in central Sofia on Saturday against what they perceive as inaction of Bulgarian authorities on the issue of illegally built Roma dwelling in Garmen municipality.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called on Bulgaria to immediately stop evictions of Roma and address the problem of anti-Roma rhetoric.

The media statement of the OSCE was issued several days after the European Court of Human Rights demanded the suspension of the demolition of two illegal buildings in the village of Garmen.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked the Bulgarian government to stop the demolition of illegal dwellings in the Roma neighbourhood of the village of Garmen until housing has not been provided for the vulnerable families.

An Istanbul court has ruled for the continuation of a 21-year-long detainment of a 42-year-old man, who has been standing trial for an anti-terror case since 1994. 

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has welcomed a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling that said a suspended prison sentence given to a journalist violated freedom of expression.

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) has opposed the forced demolition of buildings and homes in the Roma neighborhood of the southwestern Bulgarian village of Garmen.

The human rights NGO cautions that the step leaves four families with nowhere to go, forcing them to sleep out in the open.

The governor of Istanbul defended the police that used disproportionate power to interfere with the LGBTI pride parade in Istanbul, saying:

"No application was made to the office of the governor concerning the parade. Sensitivity was shown to the principle of proportionality within the jurisdiction of the law."