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  • Kerem Altiparmak and Rumeysa Budak

Yasak v. Türkiye: A Green Light to the Retrospective Application of Criminal Law in Terror Cases?

November 29, 2024

By Kerem Altiparmak and Rumeysa Budak Introduction On 27 August 2024, the Second Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR/the Court) ruled that the principle of no crime and punishment without law (Article 7 ECHR) was not violated for the applicant Şaban Yasak, who was prosecuted and sentenced to imprisonment for membership of […]

  • Yasir Gökce

The European Court’s Deference to Türkiye: A Critical Review of the Yasak Judgment

October 25, 2024

by Dr. iur. Yasir Gökce The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced recently an interesting judgment in the Yasak case, which appears to negate many of its conclusions in the landmark Yalcinkaya ruling. In the latter judgment, the Court characterised the practice of the Turkish judiciary to equate the alleged download or use of […]