ECtHR faults Turkey over lengthy pretrial detention of former US Consulate employee

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Metin Topuz, a former US Consulate employee, by keeping him in pretrial detention for more than two years without sufficient justification before his 2020 conviction on terrorism-related charges over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. In a unanimous judgment […] The post ECtHR faults Turkey over lengthy pretrial detention of former US Consulate employee appeared first on Stockholm Center for ...

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