The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, has just published two new opinions in which it again expresses its concerns at developments taking place in Turkey. One is on the criminal peace judgeship mechanism and the other on the freedom of the media in the face of the decree-laws issued as part of the state of emergency declared in the wake of failed coup d’État on 15 July of last year.
These two texts follow hard on the heels of the opinion...