Along with our fellow citizens of Cyprus, staff and management at Elias Neocleous & Co LLC were shocked and distressed by the devastating scenes emerging from Turkey and Syria in the wake...

Protocol No. 15, which amends the European Convention on Human Rights ("Convention"), entered into force on 1 August 2021. The Protocol introduces changes to the provisions on application periods, ...

The European Commission ("Commission") issued a Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence to tackle human rights and environmental impacts across global value chains...

Turkey has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings ("Convention").

Pursuant to the Protocol No. 15 amending the European Convention on Human Rights, the time-limit for the application to the European Court of Human Rights was reduced from 6 months to 4 months, effective as of February 1, 2022.

The employee was dismissed in 2007 on the basis he had been using an office communication account for personal purposes.

The objection subject to the Constitutional Court's decision published in Official Gazette dated 1 July 2022 and numbered 31883 ...

Turkey's Constitutional Court recently annulled a legislative provision which allowed the president of the Turkish Information Technologies and Communications Authority to ex officio block foreign...

Turkmenistan, a Central Asian nation often characterized by its tight control and limited civil liberties, has recently made a significant diplomatic move...

In a recently published decision, an applicant to the Constitutional Court claimed the Supreme Court had breached their right to a fair trial.

On October 19, 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") announced its decision in a significant case, regarding a piece of content published on a website.

On 25 April 2016, Turkey acceded to the 1996 Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-Operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children ("Hague Convention"), ..

The political atmosphere in Turkey became tense due to corruption allegations against various cabinet members and their families.

The Constitutional Court, in the application brought before it through an appeal, annulled the second paragraph of Article 326 of the Code of Civil Procedure No. 6100...

Turkey has ratified Protocol number 15, amending the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on a case where a successful litigant was denied attorney's fees and required to bear litigation expenses despite winning an objection to an enforcement order. The decision examines whether such a ruling violates the constitutional right of access to a court and establishes important principles regarding the allocation of litigation costs in Turkish civil procedure.

The ECHR ruled that Turkey's ban on YouTube between 2008 and 2010 violated the right to receive and impart information and ideas, granted by Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

A Turkish court recently accepted the existence of the Right to be Forgotten for the first time (2014/4-56 E, and 2015/1679 K, dated 17 June 2015).

In its landmark ruling on 9 April 2024, the ECtHR declared climate change a dire threat to human rights. Swiss women's complaint against governmental inaction violating ECHR...

Protocol No. 15 brings some major changes to the process of lodging an application with the ECHR that sits in Strasbourg.