More than 400 Turkish judges and prosecutors had been arrested and detained by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan because they were suspected of being supporters of Fethullah Gülen.
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Five years after the failed 2016 coup, which was followed by a massive purge in the Turkish administration, army and intellectual circles, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sentenced on Tuesday 23 November Turkey for pretrial detention “arbitrary” of 427 magistrates. It ordered Ankara to pay 5,000 euros to each of the magistrates for non-pecuniary damage.
In this umpteenth case brought before the Court, the seven European judges unanimously considered that Ankara had violated the “right to liberty” of the 427 magistrates guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. These provisional detentions, they noted, had not been decided “in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law” and were not “strictly required by the demands of the situation”.
These Turkish judges and prosecutors, who practiced in many jurisdictions, including the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court, had been arrested and detained for “suspicion of belonging to FETO”, details the ECHR in a press release. In the terminology of the Turkish authorities, FETO is the acronym for the “Terrorist Organization of Fethullah Supporters” Gülen, accused of having plotted the coup attempt against Erdogan.