EUTCC Newsletter – June 2024

PACE visit to Turkey 

Following a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 11-14 June 2024, PACE’s co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Turkey, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and to continue their high-level dialogue with the Council of Europe.

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9508/a-l-issue-de-sa-visite-un-rapporteur-de-suivi-de-l-apce-exhorte-a-nouveau-les-autorites-turques-a-mettre-en-uvre-les-arrets-de-la-cour-de-strasbourg

 

International crime organization leaders in Turkey

During a plenary session of the parliament, CHP MP Cevdet Akay presented a 20.5-meter-long list of names of international crime organization leaders who were wanted with red notices and had been captured in Turkey.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/chp-lawmaker-displays-20-meter-list-of-intl-fugitives-caught-in-turkey-in-parliament-video-64573

 

Travel ban on DEM Co-Mayors

DEM Party has announced that the Interior Ministry has banned the party’s many co-mayors from traveling abroad without a court order.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/dem-party-turkish-interior-ministry-bans-mayors-from-traveling-abroad-without-court-order-news-64561

 

Bianet Male Violence Monitor June 

Men killed at least 34 women and five children in June. Additionally, 30 women died under suspicious circumstances.

Men killed 193 women in the first six months of the year.

https://bianet.org/haber/men-killed-34-women-in-june-297077