Good Things Don’t Happen by Themselves
Most of the news from Turkey is bad. But there are also release orders, acquittals and landmark court rulings; none of them happens of its own accord; they are the result of people’s persistence.
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Law and Human Rights
Articles on the rule of law, fundamental rights, judicial proceedings and the European human rights system.
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Commentary · Law and Human Rights
The Collapse of Law and the Pursuit of Justice: Are We Talking in Vain?
Does talking about justice change anything in an environment where lawlessness has taken root? For the author, the greatest danger is the belief, growing stronger every day, that speaking will come to nothing.
There Are Tyrants and There Are Little Tyrants
Mothers do not see their children’s faults. So why do states look at their allies’ cruelty with the same blindness? From the Uyghurs to Gaza, from Ukraine to Myanmar: on selective conscience.
Silence: Its Mystique, Comfort and Price
We are children of a culture that says “speech is silver, silence is golden”. But in a society where injustice has become routine, is silence a virtue, or a comfort with a heavy price?
The T-Shirt Operation
Reports that a child in Van was detained for wearing a T-shirt printed with Demirtaş’s image brought the limits of freedom of expression back onto the agenda. The author interprets Demirtaş’s detention from a different angle.
Victim (and) Law
The law defines a victim only as someone harmed by a crime, yet unjust arrangements and power struggles also create victims. The author questions the forms of victimhood that fall outside the law.
Concrete Law
Cement holds a building together; law holds a society together. A commentary on law as the mortar that keeps society together when conscience, morality or religion alone are not enough.
Trench Operations: Let He Who Is Without Sin Throw the First Stone!
Like the Irish soldiers written off in the Siege of Jadotville, the soldiers in the trench operations paid the price for political mistakes. The author asks where the responsibility lies.
