The Court has communicated to the Government of Türkiye another five cases covering 1,000 applications concerning convictions for membership of an armed terrorist organisation, based on the alleged use of the encrypted messaging application called ByLock.

The background to these applications, and 1,000 others notified in December 2023, was set out by the Court’s Grand Chamber case Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye. The core issues raised by the applicants concern no punishment without law and the right to a fair trial that have already been judged in this case.

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