

Turkey attacks ECHR, asks to "reverse its case-law" and to restrict Citizens' access !
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Byzantine Civilisation's destruction, by the invasion of its capital, Constantinople, by Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453, (outlawing Christian Churches as St. Sophia, erasing the city's name : "Constantinople" as the greco-Roman emperor who liberated Christians from persecution in 330). But also of the 29 May 2005 Referendum in France where a 54,8% Majority voted "NO" to EU Constitution, notoriously victim of popular reactions to Turkey's controversial claim to enter inside the EU..
Will European Court of Human Rights prove ...stronger and harder to destroy than ...the Byzantine Civilisation and EU Constitution ?
But Turkey dared ask from ECHR to "reverse" its "Case-Law", accusing EuroJudges to "provoke" "Damages to the System" by defending Human Rights too much in Ankara's view...
Converging CoE's sources confirmed to "EuroFora" that the Turkish attack against ECHR started earlier this week in Strasbourg.
Astonished (or amused) 46 Ambassadors at CoE's Committee of Ministers, heard this week in Strasbourg a last-minute intervention by the Turkish Ambassador, in which Ankara anounced its refusal to apply a key decision on ECHR taken by CoE's Foreign Ministers' meeting on May 12 in Madrid in order to enhance ECHR's efficiency:
- Turkey "will Not implement the .. New Procedures" on ECHR's reform. It Refuses "either option" decided by the other CoE Countries, declared Ankara's Ambassador.
In fact, Ankara seems afraid that ..."by rendering Faster Just Satisfaction awards, a 3 Judge Committee procedure, may .. encourage more applications" from victims of grave Human Rights Violations notoriously continuing in Turkey, according to one of its own observations..
Thanks to a clever move by Spanish Diplomacy, the 46 other CoE's Foreign Ministers succeeded to adopt in Madrid on May 12 what is known as "Protocol 14bis" by voting fast at a moment that the Turkish Foreign Minister M. Davutoglou had left the room for a while...
But Turkey's aggression against the ECHR, resulted to an obvious Absurdity, that many will find scandalous :
- THE same State which is notoriously responsible for the difficulties faced by ECHR, by overloading Strasbourg's Court with many cases of grave Violations of Human Rights, Turkey, (No 1 by far, in all ECHR's Statistics !), dared attack its own victim, ECHR, by accusing it to be .. itself responsible for suffering from the problems exported from Ankara !..
- It's the European "Court's own actions" which are in "the root-Causes of the Backlog Problem", claimed the Turkish Ambassador :
He started by accusing ECHR to have "adopted Easy and Simple rules for Applications to it", mainly because "there are No Application Fees"
In other words, Ankara wants that ECHR starts to ask Victims of Human Rights Violations to .."Pay a Fee" before being able to access Strasbourg's Court. (And even to ..."translate" all their Documents to an "official" Language, etc).
By so doing, Ankara forgets that she has been ....condemned by the ECHR precisely for " Violation of the Human Right to Access to a Court" inside Turkey itself, by asking People to Pay "a substantial amount of Money" as "Fees", and without any Legal Aid for the Poor, before they might be heard by any Judge...
Moreover, Turkey accuses ECHR for :
- "Generous Sums of Just Satisfaction awards contained in the Court's Judgements", which "transfomed" the right to individual application in an "Industry" (sic !), according to Ankara... ("Forgeting", f.ex. that the Families of 9 "Missing" persons didn't get even 1 € from ECHR in 2008, despite its unanimous condemnation of Turkey's responsibilities for their enforced "disappearance").
- to have "decided in many cases that recourse to Domestic Remeries is Not Necessary", (as fex. on grave violations of Kurds' Human Rights, because of the notorious inefficiency of Turkish Courts, which only waste Time, and in Cyprus' Occupied Territories).
- Shamefully trying to hide Grave Violations of Human Rights behind provoked Waste of Time to the detriment of the Victims, Turkey also accuses ECHR for an "extraordinary broadening of the Rationae TEMPORIS principle", (thanks to which Loizidou and other Greek Cypriot REFUGEES, as well as "MISSING" Persons' Families, etc, succeeded to condemn Turkey).
Multiplying attacks mainly against the "unpredictable Admissibility", as it claims, of applications by ECHR,
Turkey insuled as "Preposterous" even the idea that ECHR might be a "Succes", (rejecting a well known sentence by ECHR's President, French Professor Jean-Paul Costa, that "ECHR is victim of its own success" by attracting too many applications..
Going even further, Turkey also accused ECHR for issuing, as it claims, "Contradictory Judgements", (without even explaining her claim), and even "Differentiated Judgements for Different respondent States", (i.e. accusing ECHR for Discrimination against Ankara only),
=> In conclusion, Turkey dared ask from ECHR to ...behave "Reasonably", and even to... "Reverse" "trends in the Court's Case-Law", accusing EuroJudges from 47 CoE Member States to "provoke.Damage to the System" !!!...
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ECHR's "reply" :
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Instead of any other reply, ECHR's President, French Professor Jean-Paul Costa, issued a brief, but crystal-clear official statement, where he simply "thanks those (CoE's) Member States which worked to make possible a new protocol (opened to signature), showing their attachment to the protection mecanism issued from the European Convention of Human Rights"...
However, the Turkish Ambassador promised, at least, "not to stand in the way" of other CoE's Countries, who would like to implement that procedural reform, which mainly restricts the Number of Judges who can declare an Application "inadmissible" to only 1 or 3 members, according to cases.
- "But we (ECHR) shall wait until the end of May, to see if there won't be any obstacle to the entry into force of the new Protocol 14 bis", said to "EuroFora" the Director of ECHR's Registrar, Eric Friberg of Sweden.
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[NDLR : On certain Risks of imbalances against Human Rights and Citizens' Right to Individual Petition, that the simplified Protocol 14-Bis might have, according to International NGOs, and some CoE Member States, etc, which should not be overshadowed, nor covered-up by Turkey's move, "EuroFora" will come back asap.].
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It's important to create a synergy between "mutually stimulating" EU Countries' moves in order to overcome an "Unjust" Crisis "imported from USA", stressed new French Minister for Economic Revival, Patrick Devedjian, in Strasbourg, warning also that, while hoping for a vigorous Obama US Plan, nevertheless, "Time" is of essence for Europe...
In fact, it's EU's own interest to act Fast, before June 2009 EU Election, since, with Lisbon Treaty not ratified yet, it cannot face again the risk of a Majority Abstention, as back in 1999 and 2004, nor another "anti-EU" mood among Citizens, as in the 2005 French and Dutch "No", followed by the 2008 Irish "No", without endangering rare Historic opportunities, currently open for the EU, whose future is at stake.
From Social issues up to High-Tech Scientific Research, concrete action for Economic revival started from Strasbourg and its European dimension, for the new super-Minister Patrick Devedjian, who visited a Popular Social Housing and Infrastructure project at nearby Hagenau village, before meeting new leaders of Strasbourg's unified mega-University in a Scientific Labo at the Campus, close to EU Parliament and CoE headquarters.
Devedjian, who met also with all the spectrum of Local Political deciders of Alsace region, close to FrancoGerman borders, wants for deeds to meet the words, in real practice, whenever politicians speak about Strasbourg and Europe's development.
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Devedjan to "EuroFora" : "European coordination can act as a multiplicator by mutual stimulations"
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Devedjian was questioned by "Euro-Fora" on his expectations for reciprocal effects of coordinated European plans :
- "We are living in a (European and Global) system where borders are transparent : When we take measures in France, they produce effects also in Germany, in Belgium, Italy, Spain, or other EU countries, and vice-versa. "So, we can have mutually stimulating effects between national revival Plans, if they are somehow coordinated", ..."They can augment each other's effects, acting as multiplicators and levers". "As a State stimulates Local authorities and Private business, similarly, each EU country's economic revival plan may multiply the effects of other EU countries' actions", he told us.
- "F.ex., when I visited Strasbourg University's Scientific labos, they told me that part of the renovation, funded by France, is realized by German companies located only a few Kms away from the border. Thus, the French revival plan benefits also the German economy. And vice-versa : when Germany takes certain measures, they can have beneficial effects also for French companies"
In an era of Globalisation, "nobody can close and isolate himself inside a Fish-Bowl !", he concluded.
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Economy's revival starts from Strasbourg and Europe, for new French Minister Devedjian
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This could be one of the reasons for which the new French Minister for Economic Stimulus chose to make his 1st visit to Strasbourg, the headquarters of European and Paneuropean Institutions, in the Franco-German river borders at the heart of Europe.
- "It was President Sarkozy's idea", he revealed, adding also fresh "support to Strasbourg's European vocation, not only with words, but also with deeds" :F.ex., the completion of a High-Speed Train network, due to stimulate fast links with Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary and other central EU Countries.
- "This Crisis is Unjust for Europe, because it wasn't its fault". The greatest part of the "Crisis was imported from the USA, where problems are deeper than here'', in the EU. The Crisis "wasn't due to a bad managment by Europe", who was affected by problems which emerged elsewhere. That's why Europe must be united and active enough to face this challenge. said Devedjian, who has just won +5% in popularity...
- "I hope that there will be an "Obama-effect" also on Economy, and that the Plan of the New American President will be substantial enough to face this crisis, which is worse in the USA than in our area", Europe, he added.
"Economic Revival overcomes political divisions : F.ex. Strasbourg's Socialist Mayor "Ries agreed that State actions funded by Public Debt are justified during such exceptional circumstances", noted the Center-Right republican Minister.
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"Zeitnot" for 2009 EU Elections ?
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"My problem is Time", stressed Devedjian from the outset, at Strasbourg's University. "I have to engage 75% of funds in 2009, out of a total of 29 Billion euros", he explained later. "Monitoring will be of essence", because we must "avoid bureaucracy or delays. No project should get lost or neglected in complex meanders of adminstrative offices' moving sands", he warned.
- "I must create activities in the middle of the Crisis", he added. Questioned by EuroFora whether he aims to start creating some "hopes before the June 2009 EU Elections", Devedjian, a former leader of the Governing Political Party in France: UMP, did not immediately reply, but revealed, later, that he "hoped to start at least some Projects on May 2009, even if the bulk of Revival Plan's effects are "expected from Autumn 2009".
However, with only 30% of EU Citizens currently aiming to cast a vote at the forthcoming EU Elections on June, (See other NewStory), the coordinated moves' results are expected to be crucial for Citizens' participation and votes at the forthcoming June 2009 EU Elections throughout all 27 EU Member Countries...Thus, it's vital for all Europe's own Future that coordinated national Economic revival plans start to have concrete results and create hopes for new dynamics before the June 2009 EU Election...
A real challenge, since careful choices are needed : Our aim is to fund projects which "create activities", even "in the middle of the crisis", and have a "lever effect, attracting other investments", Devedjian said. Because the "Stimulus' Plan has 2 aims : A Tactical one : to create New Activities. And a Strategic one : Choose what can become efficient and useful also in the Long-term".
- "Are you ready ?", he asked Strasbourg University's new President, professor Alain Beretz, with some 700 million euros in his pockets for Education-Research in France. - "We are !", he replied.
- "The Minister's initiative can accelerate funds, and Time is important for us. This concerns the entire renovation of all our buildings", said to "EuroFora" President, Beretz. "I showed some Scientific Research Labos to Mr. Devedjian. But, If we had more time, I could show him also some Education Amphis, whose condition needs to meet Strasbourg's new Mega-University's ambition" to reach the 10 best in the World, as Prime Minister Fillon earlier anounced here.
(Devedjian kicks off his Economic Revival tour from Strasbourg University, meeting with its new chairman Beretz, at Scientific Institute Le Bel)
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Regional Prefectures should gather and select projects to be presented for decision before the end of January 2009.
A well-known close friend of President Sarkozy, who succeeded as EU Chairman to launch, in agreement with German chancelor Merkel and even British prime minister Brown, vigorous EU actions against the Financial/Economic Crisis, (starting from the 1st Historic Summit of EuroZone's Heads of State/Government, October 12 at Elysee Palace, followed by Washington G20 Global Summit), Devedjan will have a key role in the realisation of National and EU plans recently agreed in Brussels.
President Sarkozy is expected to arrive himself in Strasbourg, on the occasion of the official inauguration of its brand New Mega-Hospital, on the 9th of January 2009, at the eve of EU Parliament's session here, Elysee confirmed shortly after Devedjian's visit.
EU is due to review its economic revival plans at March 2009 EU Council in Prague, before the April 2 London Global Summit.
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Multi-facet concrete activities at focus : Stimulus Minister Devedjian at the Political, Social and High-Tech fronts in Strasbourg...