Turkey back under monitoring in CoE
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday discussed the report on “Functioning of the democratic institutions in Turkey”. After three hours of debate, it was adopted with 113 for, 45 against, 12 abstaining votes. The discussion focused on re-opening the monitoring procedure against Turkey.
Turkey has presented changes against this proposal, however they were rejected by the voting despite the call of Turkey’s representative addressed to the PACE delegates, noting that reopening monitoring against Turkey can be negatively accepted in the country.
Through the adoptionl of the report, Turkey went back under the monitoring procedure, which can be considered a regress. The country was under the CoE monitoring in 1996-2004. Until now only 10 out of 47 CoE member states have been under monitoring.