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[RAFAELLA]

Turkey leads in human rights violations, says ECHR
January 30, 2009 - By Nicos Rousis (CNA)

Turkey is wielding the scepter of human rights violations for 2008 among the 47 member-states of the Council of Europe, with 257 convictions against it, followed by Russia with 233 convictions, Romania with 189, Poland with 129 and Ukraine with 110.

These figures were presented on Thursday by the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Jean-Paul Costa at a press conference held in Strasbourg on the occasion of the Court’s 50th anniversary since its establishment.

He called upon the member states of the Council of Europe to reaffirm their commitment to human rights and their support for the Court’s work, while at the same time reflecting with the Court on how to adapt the protection mechanism to the needs of the 21st century.

He stressed the size of the current caseload (nearly 100,000 cases pending), which is constantly increasing, and noted that, regrettably, the various reform proposals had reached an apparent impasse, even if he remained hopeful that the different obstacles could be surmounted.

At the same time, he added, the Court could not simply go on increasing its staff and resources indefinitely, although it would still be necessary to provide the Court with additional means in the short to medium term.

Costa said that something had to be done to safeguard the long-term effectiveness of the system.

The main lines of the reform were clear: comprehensive implementation of the Convention standards at domestic level; effective execution of the Court's judgments by member states to ensure that the Court was not overloaded with large numbers of similar cases and a re-structured protection mechanism allowing the Court's efforts to be concentrated as a matter of priority on the important well-founded cases.

The President stated that the Court had delivered 1,543 judgments in 2008, 3% up on 2007, and 30,163 decisions, 11% up.

He explained that this considerable activity had not reduced the backlog, as some 50,000 new applications had been allocated to a judicial formation in 2008, 20% more than in 2007.

He also pointed out that 57% of applications had been lodged against just four states (the Russian Federation, Turkey, Romania and Ukraine), with the remaining 43% covering the other 43 member states.

While this high caseload showed the confidence that the European public placed in the Court, it carried with it a risk of saturation, he mentioned.

He concluded by saying that the Court had to work together with the Council of Europe and national authorities on improving the information available to the public with a view to getting across to them a clearer message about what the Convention and therefore the Court could do for them and what fell outside their reach.

Also at this press conference, the Court's annual table of violations per country was published for 2008 which it shows that Turkey was the country that gave rise to the greatest number of judgments (257) in which at least one violation of the Convention was found, followed by Russia (233), Romania (189), Poland (129) and Ukraine (110).

The Court has found Turkey guilty of human rights violations in Cyprus on several cases, as a result of its 1974 invasion of the island’s northern part and its continuing occupation.

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[paliometoxo]

they sure do but they do what they are best at and ignore it all and no one does a thing to enforce these rules to turkey so they say oh we can get away with it because no one does sh** to stop us

[RAFAELLA]

I believe that all these convictions will be used when the right time comes.

[paliometoxo]

yes even though they ignore them it just makes turkey look worse and when they try join eu or want something from the eu or un then they get the finger..

and then turkey complain that eu should forget cyprus and take turkey into eu because they are much bigger population ... keep going like this turkey ignoring and doing actions like this they are digging their own grave

[miltiades]

The report by the ....so called "ECHR" is NOT recognised by Turkey anymore than the.... so called "ROC" is .
So there !!

[YFred]

I believe that all these convictions will be used when the right time comes.

Dream on.

[paliometoxo]

dream on'? so you thin turkey will just ignore the voilations and get away with it?

[Oracle]

I believe that all these convictions will be used when the right time comes.

Dream on.

Yes it is a dream that all humanity shares (apart from you and yours), that one day, we will have a world, where there is respect for other Human beings, and their Rights.

Yes keep right on dreaming that it won't happen; you just keep right on violating humanity .... and just like the blighted Saber-toothed cats with over-developed canines; you will become extinct.

[paliometoxo]

your to right oracle turks still live in the planet of the appes, the mentality of the dinosour age their idea is that the world is wrong and only turkey is right they have "big army" so they can do what they want and everyone should follow them

[Simon]

Isn't it telling that the only Turkish comment on this thread so far is "deam on". Says all you need to know.