ECtHR: Turkish courts fail to protect Turkish national portrayed as suicide bomber
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on November 21st that the Turkish domestic justice has failed to protect the right to private life of a citizen portrayed in the media as a suicide bomber.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ms Hülya Tarman, a Turkish national living in Cologne (Germany), was among three persons investigated in spring 2007 by the Turkish authorities in the city of Diyarbakır for threat and blackmail. Eventually, in October 2007 the public prosecutor brought to the court a criminal…
