Trial Observation Report: Turkish Court Silences Female Advocate

Trial Observation Report: Turkish Court Silences Female Advocate

Kurdish Human Rights Project

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To a significant extent, the legal, political and social background to the Delegation’s visit was set out in the KHRP December 2001 report. Yet, there are a number of issues that have arisen during the course of 2002 that provide a contextual framework which should inform the reading of this report.
Three issues in particular are worthy of note here: the recent views of the European Union in respect of Turkey’s accession to the Union, the position taken by international human rights organisations on the state of human rights in Turkey and the recent general election.
Firstly, the European Union has recently declined to offer Turkey an indication as to when it may accede.3 This was based, at least in ...

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