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Mahmut Şakar, lawyer and member of the association MAF-DAD, said that legal changes in Turkey should be monitored for compliance with international law and involve the Venice Commission The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, during its September 2025 session, referred to the parliamentary commission established within the Turkish Grand National Assembly to draft regulations […]

Law in Turkey has never protected those outside the imposed notion of “Turkishness,” and the Kurdish question has always been political and requires a political solution. If the process is to evolve towards peace and a solution, issues such as what democratic law truly means, how the legal rights of Kurds will be established and

Rengin Ergül, lawyer and member MAF-DAD , discusses the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ decision on “right to hope” in Turkey Following its quarterly meeting on human rights from September 15 to 17, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which had given Turkey one year to implement the “Right to Hope” in the

Sixteen bar associations stress that life sentence effectively deprives prisoners of “hope for life,” and that the “right to hope” should be regulated in law on the execution of sentences. In a joint statement issued after their meeting in Dersim, Turkey sixteen bar associations in Northern Kurdistan criticized the politicization of the judiciary, violations of