Ankara pledges to speed up criminal trials

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Series Details 6.1.11
Publication Date 06/01/2011
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Article discusses the problems in Turkey’s justice system of lengthy trials and pre-trial detention – issues that have often drawn criticism from human rights groups and from international institutions.

Turkey’s justice minister promised on the 5 January 2011 'radical steps' to speed up criminal trials after new rules limiting pre-trial detention led to the release of Islamist militants whose convictions for decade-old killings had not yet been confirmed.

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