Former Democratic People’s Party (HDP) co-leader Demirtaş was detained and arrested on November 4, 2016. November 3, marked nine years since his imprisonment began. On the same day, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected Turkey’s appeal—lodged on October 8—to have his case reviewed by the Grand Chamber. That decision makes the Court’s earlier
The main factor keeping Osman Kavala and the Gezi Trial prisoners in jail is not the law. It is not even the Constitution and legislation. If it were, the decisions of the Constitutional Court (AYM) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) would have been implemented in due time; they would not have been