Strasbourg, 22/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 21 July, Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE), announced that Turkey had informed him of its desire to use Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to derogate from some of its arrangements.
Article 15 states that: “In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation any High Contracting Party may take measures derogating from its obligations under this...