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EUTCC Commentaries #11 by Dr. Arzu Yılmaz: What Will Happen to the Kurds if the US Withdraws from Syria and Iraq?The future of the Kurds in Iraq and Syria after a US withdrawal has already begun to take shape. The containment of Kurdish political and military cross‐border mobility has been achieved to some extent by paving the way for Turkey’s military operations; it is now contingent on the recomposition of a desired ‘favorable balance of power” to fill the power vacuum in the Middle East. With an aggressive Turkish stance in the region, however, neither this containment policy nor the efforts made toward themaintenance of the “favorable balance of power” can be successful.

http://eutcc.net/?p=875
Key findings of the European Commission’s Report on Turkey There are serious deficiencies in the functioning of Turkey’s democratic institutions. Democratic backsliding continued during the reporting period. Structural deficiencies of the presidential system remained in place. Key recommendations of the Council of Europe and its bodies remain to be addressed. The Parliament continued to lack the necessary means to hold the government accountable. The constitutional architecture continued to centralise powers at the level of the Presidency without ensuring a sound and effective separation of powers between the executive, legislative and the judiciary. 

Statement by European Parliament’s Turkey Rapporteur Nacho Sánchez Amor and Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee Sergey Lagodinsky on Erdoğan’s order to declare 10 ambassadors ‘persona non grata’
The measures announced by President Erdoğan against 10 ambassadors over their statement on the ongoing persecution of businessman Osman Kavala are incomprehensible and completely baseless. 

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211025IPR15735/turkey-a-serious-diplomatic-crisis-that-can-still-be-avoided
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EUTCC Commentary #10Written by Harun Ercan Authoritarianism from Above and Below: Exclusive Nationalism and the Turkish‐Kurdish Conflict

HDP Declaration Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-Chairs Pervin Buldan and Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar announced the declaration “Call for Justice, Democracy and Peace”HDP calls for a democratic constitution based on equal citizenship with respect towards different cultures, identities, faiths and native languages, ways of life and a secular way of life.
https://hdpeurope.eu/2021/09/hdp-let-us-win-together-we-call-for-justice-democracy-and-peace/

CoE’s Committee of Ministers supervisions of the execution of ECtHR’s judgments in Kavala and Demirtaş casesThe Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has reiterated its call for the release of Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş. 
Osman Kavala:https://search.coe.int/cm/pages/result_details.aspx?objectid=0900001680a3c4d0

Selahattin Demirtaş: https://search.coe.int/cm/pages/result_details.aspx?objectid=0900001680a3c4da

Statement by CoE Commissioner for Human Rights on prolongation of Osman Kavala’s detention Dunja Mijatovic: The prolongation of detention of Osman Kavala displays contempt for human rights and the rule of law 

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EUTCC Commentary #9 Written by Prof. Hasan AydinHuman Rights Jeopardized in Turkey: Governmental and Judicial Intentions to Erode Due Process and the Right to a Fair Trial

Murder case of HDP member Deniz Poyraz Türkan Aslan, an attorney for Deniz Poyraz, who was killed in the HDP İzmir Office, says that the Historical Traffic Search (HTS) records of the armed assailant’s phone shows that he was not acting alone.

Solitary confinement on Imrali prison island continues Attorney of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan: 251 unanswered applications since August 2019 
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