European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled against the Bulgarian state over the clash between supporters of nationalist party Ataka and Muslims outside Sofia's Banya Bashi mosque in 2011.

The lawsuit was initiated by Veli Karaahmed, one of the injured in the clashes, with the legal assistance of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey for violating Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, on the grounds that an investigation against a Turkish citizen was conducted ineffectively.

In the Mehmet Yaman vs. Turkey case, the ECHR has fined Turkey a total of 14,500 euros because the length of the investigation into Yaman violated Article 3.

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. 

BELGRADE - Member of the Serbian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Natasa Vuckovic was appointed on Tuesday as the vice-chair of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights.

BELGRADE - Member of the Serbian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Natasa Vuckovic was appointed on Tuesday as the vice president of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights.

The European Union should sign up for the European Convention on Human Rights, but recent negative advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union is worrying, according to Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has dismissed several appeals claiming the illegality of the new presidential palace construction in Ankara, prompting one of the applicants, the head of the Ankara branch of the Chamber of Architects, to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Two recent court rulings, one from Turkey and one from Europe, have strengthened the Alevis’ case for cemevis, which the state refuses to recognize as houses of worship, but the main source of injustice against them is still the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).

Two recent court rulings, one from Turkey and one from Europe, have strengthened the Alevis’ case for cemevis, which the state refuses to recognize as houses of worship, but the main source of injustice against them is still the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).

The Supreme Court of Appeals has reversed three judgments that found main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu guilty over “insult” claims in favor of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.