Daily Archives: September 25, 2012

Turkish News Folder, 25 September 2012

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25.09.2012 Download the pdf version   CHP MP Mustafa Balbay’s call from where the law does not exist CHP MP and journalist Mustafa Balbay. As of September 25, 2012 he has been detained for 1290 days. So far, he spent 576 … Continue reading

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CHP Foreign Policy Chief Faruk Loğoğlu criticized gov’t refusal to extradite al-Hashemi and the lack of progress in the EU reform process

The government’s refusal to extradite Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in absentia by an Iraqi court, may be the last straw in bilateral relations between the countries, a main opposition … Continue reading

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CHP MP Mustafa Balbay’s call from where the law does not exist

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By Mustafa Balbay* Prison Number 1, Lower Ward F-3, Silivri/Istanbul What was experienced on Tuesday, Sept. 18 during the Ergenekon trial, provided a summary of the point to which our justice has reached. (The Ergenekon case is an alleged ultra … Continue reading

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CHP’s Policy Proposals

The CHP was founded on 9 September 1923, about one and half month before the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. The first President of modern Turkey’s oldest party was M. Kemal Atatürk. Today CHP is a social-democratic party, member … Continue reading

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The CHP was founded on 9 September 1923, about one and half month before the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. The first President of modern Turkey’s oldest party was M. Kemal Atatürk. Today CHP is a social-democratic party, member … Continue reading

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Former Turkish judge at the ECHR and current CHP deputy Rıza Türmen: Top judges should give rulings in parallel with the ECHR in order for the Constitutional Court to be recognized as an effective domestic remedy by the European court

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Rıza Türmen, a former Turkish judge at the ECHR and current Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy, is skeptical as to whether the Constitutional Court will be recognized as an effective domestic remedy by the ECHR, stressing that the top Turkish … Continue reading

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CHP likens Balyoz to McCarthy trials in US

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CHP spokesperson Haluk Koç says the right to a fair trial had been violated in the Balyoz case. ‘This court has made a political decision,’ he says in a press meeting. The court verdict in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot … Continue reading

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