The immediate reaction of the USA and the EU was provoked by the unexpected decision of a Turkish court for life imprisonment of the businessman and patron of art Osman Kavala.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the verdict had caused “intense concern and frustration.” Osman Kavala was initially acquitted by the court in the Gezi case. However, he was arrested on his way out of prison, this time on charges of espionage. The Turkish businessman was subsequently tried in both cases after the Court of Appeals rejected the acquittal of the Gezi Park uprising.
His long pre-trial detention in Turkey had preoccupied the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which requested the release of Osman Kavalas. The decision was not executed by the Turkish court, while now the decision of the European court remains in the air.
New appeal to European justice?
Kavala will now have to exhaust his legal remedies in Turkey to appeal to the ECtHR again against the life sentence, which only one judge does not endorse, noting that there is no convincing evidence to convict the accused. Following Erdogan’s aggressive statements to the US President about the US President’s references to the Armenian genocide, now Ankara-Washington relations are deteriorating and on the occasion of the independence of the judiciary due to the Kavala case.
Andreas Robopoulos,
Source: Deutsche Welle
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