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| The Grand Turk |
| Three Turkish men’s ‘right to fair trial’ violated through unlawful coercion: Euro court |
| 2017-09-06 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Sept. 5 that three The court said the The three men complained to the ECHR about not having had access to a lawyer while being questioned by the police in 2003 and 2004, on suspicions, in particular, of membership in an illegal organization. They all confessed, in the absence of a lawyer, to being members of an illegal organization and in the cases of Bozkaya and Turk, to having committed violent offenses in connection with their membership in these organizations. During court hearings they later retracted parts of their confessions. All three applicants were convicted‐Koc, of membership in an armed organization, and both Bozkaya and Turk for the offense of, in particular, seeking to remove part of the national territory from the The three men later complained to the ECHR that their right to a fair trial was violated because their convictions were based on confessions obtained through unlawful coercion tactics in the absence of a lawyer. |
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