Turkey will not respect the Council of Europe if it does not respect Turkish courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday, when asked about a decision to refer the case against jailed businessperson Osman Kavala back to a top court.
The Foreign Ministry also criticized the Council of Europe on Wednesday for adopting a biased stance in the Kavala case, saying it interfered in the ongoing independent judicial process.
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers decided on Wednesday to refer the question of whether Turkey violated the European Convention on Human Rights by not releasing Kavala to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
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