Turkey late Thursday urged the Council of Europe to not interfere in the country’s independent judiciary and to be impartial toward the country in response to a decision regarding the Osman Kavala case.
“In line with the principle of respect for pending judicial proceedings, we call on the Council of Europe to avoid taking further steps (on the Kavala case), which would mean interference in the independent judiciary,” said a statement by the Foreign Ministry.
The statement came after the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe said it would refer to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) the question of whether Turkey had executed a previous judgment by the court on Kavala.
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