Court of Cassation announces verdict in case of Italian ship, which rescued 101 irregular migrants in Mediterranean Sea in July 2018 and turned them over to Libyan authorities
Turkey's parliament stripped on Tuesday the status of a jailed opposition lawmaker who had been at the center of a judicial crisis between two of the country's top courts. Can Atalay, 47, was elected to parliament in May last year representing the Workers' Party of Turkey (TIP) - an ally of the big pro-Kurdish DEM party - while serving an 18-year prison sentence. Turkey's top appeals court, the Court of Cassation, twice refused to release Atalay despite a Constitutional Court ruling that his rights to be elected were violated.
France's judiciary can continue its investigation against the French cement manufacturer Lafarge on charges of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Syria. The Court of Cassation, the highest French court, said on Tuesday it had rejected an appeal by the Swiss parent company LafargeHolcim to dismiss the long-running proceedings. Despite the civil war, the cement manufacturer operated a plant in northern Syria until 2014. In order to maintain operations, the local company paid millions t
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday parliament may pass a legal amendment to resolve a judicial crisis involving an unprecedented clash between two of the country's top courts. The unprecedented confrontation between the tribunals stoked a debate over the rule of law this week, when the appeals Court of Cassation refused to abide by a ruling of the Constitutional Court over a jailed parliamentarian and made a criminal complaint against judges of the top court. "It is not difficult to make legal arrangements regarding individual applications (to the Constitutional Court)," Erdogan told reporters on a flight back from Saudi Arabia, according to a text published by his office on Sunday.