ANKARA – Ankara IHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan said, "This visit in terms of the protection of human rights values ​​is a great erosion and it shows the point capitalist modernity's understanding of law came".

 

The visit of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) President Robert Spano to Mardin Governor and Mardin Metropolitan Municipality trustee Mahmut Demirtaş and AKP Mardin Provincial Organization caused reactions during his visit t Turkey, as well as the honorary doctorate he was given by the İstanbul University. These visits and the photographs from these visits caused discussions in a Turkey where anti democratic practices have been on the rise.

 

Öztürk Türkdoğan, Co-Chairperson of the Human Rights Association (İHD), evaluated the situation of international law through Spano's visits.

 

Türkdoğan said: "Looking at the flipside of the coin, these visits show how European Council deviated from protecting the values of human rights and their duty to enforce the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights to the member states.  It shows that there is a great erosion in terms of the protection of human rights values ​​and the point where the understanding of law of Capitalist Modernity has reached."

 

Türkdoğan said: "The Capitalist Modernity can not currently protect the humans' rights system it, itself created."

 

Türkdoğan said the visit in this perspective was the last nail on the coffin in terms of universal law.

 

Türkdoğan said: "If you have set up a supreme court and can not enforce its case laws to the member states, the point you came is that visit in Turkey. In other words, that high court turns into a bureaucratic mechanism. Instead of distributing justice, it searches for economic resources that will create itself, and especially if such institutions are engaged in efforts to work for themselves instead of administering justice, the colusion here will be great."