Platform for an Independent Judiciary in Turkey sends Letters to the CoE

The EAJ’s President Mr Christophe Régnard signed, together with the other members of the  Platform for an Independent Judiciary in Turkey, two letters: to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In the letters, the Platform urged the Council of Europe

• to establish, within the Parliamentary Assembly, an Independent Investigation Commission, composed by experts in Human Rights, on the situation of the independence of the Judiciary in Turkey, to gather the arguments of the Turkish authorities for their activities against the judiciary and the factual basis of these activities
• to remind Turkey of the European values and standards
• to send high ranking observers to Turkey to watch the situation of the detained judges and prosecutors

The above mentioned letters are available at the following links:

• http://www.iaj-uim.org/iuw/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Platform-Letter-Council-Europe-1-8-2016-4SGFinal.pdf
• http://www.iaj-uim.org/iuw/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Platform-Letter-Council-Europe-1-8-2016-4PACEFinal-1.pdf