http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200109-174440-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-turkish-judiciarys-violations-of-human-rights-guarantees/ The Turkish Judiciary’s Violations of Human Rights Guarantees - The ECtHR’s Recent Parmak & Bakir Judgment and Turkey’s Post-Coup Terrorism Trials Yildiz, Ali Spencer, Leighann eng 2020-01-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 ECtHR European Convention of Human Rights Human Rights Judiciary Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 3 December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Parmak & Bakir v Turkey that the Turkish judiciary’s interpretation of the offence of membership of an armed terrorist organization violated Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights, being the absolute right to no punishment without law. Although the case deals with incidents from 2002, it shows how Turkey’s post-coup terrorism trials violate Turkey’s obligations under the ECHR.