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Turkish legal professionals review ways of increasing the use of alternatives to detention

What are current challenges and barriers to the use of alternatives to pre-trial detention and alternative punishments in Turkey? What kind of practical tools and resources could be provided to the support the use of alternative measures to detention? How can the innovations of Turkey’s new Human Rights Action Plan, such as “supervising the judicial control obligations at regular intervals, introducing an upper time limit and fulfilling the signature obligation by using technological means” contribute to the practice?

These are some of the questions discussed at a round table on 24 June, which gathered Turkish policy-makers, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, academics as well as international experts, in the context of the joint European Union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022.”

The event is part of a series of round tables, which are seeking to promote the right to liberty and security. It aimed at analysing the current situation in Turkey, and reviewing problems arising from legislation and implementation with a view to proposing concrete recommendations regarding the ways through which the use of alternative measures to detention could be encouraged in the future.

Turkey’s new Action Plan on Human Rights emphasises that detention should only be used as an exceptional measure. New reforms have been announced in this context, including narrowing down the scope of catalogue offences, and expanding alternative sanctions to short-term prison sentences by 2022.

This round table was organised as part of the joint European Union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”.

Ankara 24 June 2021
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