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43 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2026 · 5 series
One in every three cases awaiting judgment in Strasbourg is against Turkey. Even when judgments go unimplemented, an application to the ECtHR puts the violation on permanent record, and that record becomes the basis for holding the state to account, if not today, then tomorrow.
As the squares narrowed, opposition moved to the screen; now the screen is narrowing too. Article 8/A of Law No. 5651, the criminal judgeships of peace and the compliance of platforms are building a new order of censorship in the digital sphere.
Most of the news from Turkey is bad. But there are also release orders, acquittals and landmark court rulings; none of them happens of its own accord; they are the result of people’s persistence.
Who determines the leadership of a main opposition party, delegates or courts? The ruling of absolute nullity against the CHP gives concrete form in Turkey to the thesis that democracies are eroded not by tanks but by tools that look legal.
After the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, people spoke of “Americanisation”. Yet similar tragedies have happened in Europe too, from Finland to Austria; the common mechanism is often a licensed gun at home.
After the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, the state acted fastest in the digital sphere: thousands of access blocks, detentions, a broadcast ban. But the question of which information was silenced and which was allowed to circulate remains unanswered.
After the Kahramanmaraş attack, the debate shifted to video games and social media. Yet the first question is this: how did five pistols in a police chief inspector’s home end up in the hands of a 14-year-old?
Cyberbullying is no longer a debate about screen time but a public health issue. The EU’s new action plan aims to establish online dignity, privacy and safety as fundamental rights.
Fatma Deniz, who graduated top of her class from Bursa Girls’ High School, was elected president of TU Berlin after Caltech and Berkeley. The story of a scientist building a bridge between the brain and artificial intelligence.
Istanbul-born Sinan Selen has become the first person with a migrant background to head Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the BfV. The appointment drew different reactions in Germany, in Europe, in Turkey and in the diaspora.
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