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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12548

29 August 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 18
NEWS BRIEFS / Turkey
For EU, death of Ebru Timtik shows urgency of addressing shortcomings of Turkish judicial system

28/08/2020 (Agence Europe)The spokesman for the European External Action Service, Peter Stano, said on Friday 28 August that the death of lawyer Ebru Timtik, who had been on hunger strike for 238 days to demand a fair trial, showed “the urgent need to address in a credible manner the human rights situation and serious shortcomings in the judiciary” in Turkey. Ms Timtik, who died at the age of 42, was sentenced last year to more than 13 years in prison for ‘membership of a...

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EXTERNAL ACTION
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
SECTORAL POLICIES
INSTITUTIONAL
NEWS BRIEFS
CALENDAR
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