by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) was named as the winner of the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday. Under arrest since Oct 26, 2016 over his alleged links to the Gulen...
by TurkeyPurge | May 3, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Germany-based Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés (MEDEL) has nominated Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) for the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize. Under arrest since Oct 26, 2016 over his...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 11, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
In a joint statement released on Monday, four European judges associations urged Turkey to investigate every individual assertion of torture, especially the reported death of Seyfettin Yiğit, who was found hanged on Sept. 16. The Association of European Administrative...