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Urgent: Turkey temporarily suspends human rights convention after failed coup

Xinhua, July 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Turkish government notified the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe (CoE) on Thursday that it intends to temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human Rights in the country.

Officially, the Turkish authorities have notified CoE Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland that Turkey will "notify its derogation" under Article 15 of the Convention.

The possibility of temporarily suspending the convention is provided for by Article 15 in times of public emergency "threatening the life of a nation". It has been used in the past by other member states, most recently by France and Ukraine. Endit