European Court of Human Rights

The creation of artificial intelligence (AI) has always been a dream that has captured the imagination of scientists and researchers. Now a team of two Greek researchers from the University College of London (UCL) has devised an algorithm that can predict whether the complaints filed by applicants to the European Court of Human Rights are legitimate, with a 79% accuracy.

The number of applications against Turkey pending at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has more than halved over the last four and a half years, according to data gathered by the state-run Anadolu Agency. However, Turkey remains among the most consistently challenged states at the ECHR. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Sept. 20 ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a couple from the eastern province of Ağrı who had filed a complaint over their son's death during his compulsory military service. 

Şirin and Barika Güzelaydın applied to the court claiming that their son Burhan had been killed and had not committed suicide. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to effective, independent and prompt investigation into suspicious deaths in two separate cases, issuing a fine of 20,000 euros in each case.

Serbia's main achievements and reforms since 1998 are reflected in a better access to courts and shorter criminal proceedings.

These also include better protection of prisoners' right to correspondence, the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers said in an annual report on its supervision of the execution of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on March 15 that Russia had violated the rights of five HIV-positive individuals of non-Russian citizenship by not granting them Russian residency permits. 

The Constitutional Court's justification on the release of jailed journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül was published on March 9. Without going into technical legal details, I want to share some of my evaluations. 

Turkey's Constitutional Court has decided a local court which ruled for the arrests of journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül had made an "apparent discretion mistake" concerning the ruling which put the two behind bars for over 90 days.

The decision by the Constitutional Court on the release of jailed journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül was not a surprise. It is in line with the top court's other verdicts on human rights matters.

Long-term military curfews constitute a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, former European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge R?za Türmen has told daily Radikal, amid continued curfews in a number of towns in southeastern Turkey.