Turkey working with Council of Europe on post-coup prosecutions
A delegation from Turkey's justice ministry has met with the Council of Europe to review European human rights standards and conventions as Ankara prepares to prosecute those it holds responsible for a failed July 15 coup, the head of the CoE said.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will also meet with other ministers from the 47-nation rights body in Strasbourg, France, on September 7, Thorbjorn Jagland, general secretary of the CoE, told Reuters on September 6 on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the German foreign ministry.
"We have been working with them. We want to see to it that the judicial safeguards are in place," Jagland said. "They have in mind that if they don't put this in place that many of these cases will land in court in Strasbourg."
The meeting with the Turkish justice ministry delegation took place on September 2, Jagland said.
Turkey's discussions with the CoE come amid efforts by European leaders to ease tensions that flared after the coup and loud criticism by several European Union leaders of President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown,
Strasbourg is home to the European Court of Human Rights, which rules on individual or state allegations of violations of civil and political rights. Turkey ratified the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 1954.
