The last significant attempt at negotiation dates back to the 2013-2015 peace process, which focused on several key issues aimed at ending the armed conflict and establishing a political solution to the Kurdish question in order to expand the AKP’s hegemony among the Kurdish electorate.

Selahattin Demirtaş (no. 2) v Turkey [GC] (Application no. 14305/17, 22 December 2020) and Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu and others v Turkey (Application no. 14332/17, 8 November 2022, final on 3 April 2023) judgments are supervised by the Committee of Ministers (“the Committee”) within the same group of cases.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu fiercely criticized the politicization of Turkey’s judiciary in a press conference. He alleged that biased judicial experts were being systematically assigned to investigate him and other CHP-led municipalities,

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

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