content tagged with private life

ECtHR rules against waiting period for remarriage of divorced women in Turkey

ECtHR rules against waiting period for remarriage of divorced women in Turkey

The European court has concluded that the practice is discriminatory and infringes upon the right to privacy.

Uploading prisoner’s letters to judiciary informatics system ‘violates rights’

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Uploading prisoner’s letters to judiciary informatics system ‘violates rights’

Turkey’s top court has acknowledged that uploading the letters of an arrestee to the National Judiciary Informatics System (UYAP) “violates the right to respect for privacy and freedom of communication”.

Enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun: Perpetrators protected by ‘privacy’

Enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun: Perpetrators protected by ‘privacy’

It has been 26 years since the enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun. Due to the “privacy of private life”, it is still not unveiled under whose name the vehicle that abducted Tosun was registered.

1 November 2021

Turkey’s top court says trans woman’s right to respect for privacy violated

Turkey’s top court says trans woman’s right to respect for privacy violated

The Constitutional Court has concluded the application of a trans woman whose application for changing her name was rejected as “she didn’t have gender reassignment surgery and society might have wrong perceptions if she had a woman’s name.”

22 September 2021

No Advance Notification for News on Private Life

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

No Advance Notification for News on Private Life

Upon the application filed by former International Automobile Federation Mosely, the ECHR ruled that newspapers do not have the legal duty to notify the subjects of intended publications in advance.