The TLSP report illustrates the systematic capture of Türkiye’s judiciary by President Erdoğan’s regime, detailing how politically motivated prosecutions have manipulated legal processes to target dissenters, particularly lawyers and human rights defenders, eroding judicial independence and perpetrating human rights violations.
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New report reveals the tactics Turkey uses to defy ECHR rulings
A joint comprehensive briefing document released by Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project details how Turkey is openly defying the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and dismantling the last remnants of judicial independence.