Turkey tops list of Human Rights offenders in Europe 2008

[Hope And Change]

Turkey tops list of Human Rights offenders in Europe 2008

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has today published its' annual report on judgements/applications to the court for 2008

The court delivered 1,543 judgments in 2008, 3% up on 2007, and 30,163 decisions, 11% up.

57% of applications to the court had been lodged against just four States (Russian Federation, Turkey, Romania and Ukraine), with the remaining 43% covering the other 43 Member States.

Top 5 offending countries against Human Rights in Europe 2008

1) Turkey 257 Judgements against

2) Russia 233 Judgements against

3) Romania 189 Judgements against

4) Poland 129 Judgements against

5) Ukraine 110 Judgements against

UK came 11th out of 43 with 27 Judgements against

Current caseload at the court 100,000 applications


Source for data ECtHR: http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/

Download table: http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/Newszine102/Tableau_de_violations_2008_ENG.pdf">Tableau_de_violations_2008_ENG.pdf


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[arcadian]

1. But they are our buddies.

They helped us defeat the commie pinko scourge.

[Captain Needa]

2. They are desperate to be an EU member

but we are tired of telling them that they must ban death penalty first and stop killing Kurds. Other than that we have no problem whatsoever letting them in. The more, the merrier. Maybe one day we can start thinking about invading US from Alaska and having all of you eating cheeseburgers with mayonnaise sauce instead of that repulsive ketchup.

[Hope And Change]

4. Well, don`t forget who actually run this country: the guys in the uniform.

The Turkish military has said that they won`t bow to the EU which means that they will not give up their power.As long as this is the case then they won`t be able to join the EU either.In a "healthy" democracy it`s the Government that controls the army and not vice versa.

By the way, Turkey has banned death penalty.But there are many other problems in Turkey that makes it difficult for Turkey to meet the EU requirements.They have made some reforms but it`s going extremely slow.

[Javaman]

3. And I get flamed last week...

for stating that the pot is calling the kettle black when turkey condemned israels invasion of the Gaza strip.

Nice to be validated.