“Executing the death penalty is incompatible with membership of the Council of Europe”, stated the institution’s spokesperson Daniel Holtgen on Sunday 30 October on Twitter.
No mention is made of Turkey but this little reminder came the day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that a proposal on restoring the death penalty would shortly be put to the country’s parliament and that, were parliament to approve the proposal, he would ratify it. This announcement was made...