An appeal on the legality of the temporary detention of a Turkish magistrate, following the attempted coup on 15 July was rejected by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday 17 November. The reasons for this rejection state that Zeynep Mercan had not exhausted all the different domestic channels of appeal.
Mercan was a judge in the city of Giresun in north-eastern Turkey. She was arrested on 18 July and put on remand that day. Her opposition to this decision was rejected by the...